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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... created and unique . Be- cause we believe that , we must dispense with every old hierarchy of value : contemplation over action , sober piety over ecstatic enthusiasm , discipline over pleasure , or Latin over the vulgate . Any such ...
... created a personality as isolated and untutored as Plato's democrat . A life of elevation , dignity , and mutual restraint seemed to him possible only with support from practices and beliefs that democracy undid . Because Tocqueville ...
... 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 schools have not been called on to solve . Since Thomas Jefferson ...
... created a new elite , and drew fresh attack from the proponents of equality , who believe it has once more made schools into bas- tions of inequity , now moving under the name of merit . As long as we take “ democracy ” to mean many ...
... creating patrons and spokespersons for a great variety of views—from Ross Perot to Warren Beatty, and many lesser-known supporters of both liberal and conservative causes. In Levin's view, the excesses of capitalism are ones 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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