Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American DemocracyJedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar Yale University Press, 1 окт. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 288 In this thought-provoking collection, leading scholars explore democracy in the United States from a sweeping variety of perspectives. A dozen contributors consider the nature and prospects of democracy as it relates to the American experience—free markets, religion, family life, the Cold War, higher education, and more. These probing essays bring American democracy into fresh focus, complete with its idealism, its moral greatness, its disappointments, and its contradictions. Based on DeVane lectures delivered at Yale University, these writings examine large themes and ask important questions: Why do democratic societies, and the United States in particular, tolerate profound economic inequality? Has the United States ever been truly democratic? How has democratic aspiration influenced the development of practices as diverse as education, religious worship, and family life? With deep insights and lively discussion, the authors expand our understanding of what democracy has meant in the past, how it functions now, and what its course may be in the future. |
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... claims to be a democrat, and democracy is presented often as neces- sary and sometimes as sufficient to cure all social ills, the meaning of democ- racy can be hard to pin down. One place to begin, as Anthony Kronman does in the opening ...
... claim that democracy could not make the arts blossom , Whitman answered with a democratic poetry that celebrated the ... claiming to be better than any part of it . Both Whitman and Lincoln , as Bromwich presents them , wrestled ...
... claim to be more than the handmaidens of politics . They were a political creation from the beginning , and , as Richard Brodhead points out in his essay , there are few problems that have not been blamed on bad schools , and fewer that ...
... claim that political order is the analogue and product of psychological order , that order at the level of the city both reflects and derives from order at the level of the soul . The truly individual soul cannot be an orderly soul , in ...
... claim that there can be no fixed and authoritative ranking of these choices according to the degree to which they approach the one true conception of how human beings should live ? Are the lives we live not strikingly like the one that ...
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4 Can Religion Tolerate Democracy? And Vice Versa? | 67 |
5 Taking Democracy to School | 99 |
Audits Quantification and the Obfuscation of Politics | 115 |
The Democracy as Social Movement | 138 |
9 Democracy and Distribution | 173 |
10 Democracy and Foreign Policy | 205 |
11 Dinner with Democracy | 222 |
12 American Democracy and the Origins of the Biomedical Revolution | 236 |
13 Computers and Democracy | 258 |
List of Contributors | 273 |
Index | 275 |
8 Democracy and the Market | 154 |
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