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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... cultures , our polities , and our families . There we develop the habits and refinements that make a person a member of a civilization , the loyalty and affection that form membership in political and other communities , and the higher ...
... culture was self - concerned and philistine , flat because all its appetites , ambitions , and loyalties were directed at this world , in the present time , with no sense of history or the transcendent . “ I see , " Tocqueville wrote of ...
... cultural ferment of democracy by ensuring that wealth builds up in many different centers, creating patrons and spokespersons for a great variety of views—from Ross Perot to Warren Beatty, and many lesser-known supporters of both ...
... culture we deserve , it is not because our political culture guaranteed it to us but because our political decisions created it . In reading Steitz's essay , one is reminded of an additional factor in American scientific success : our ...
... culture, and the amnesia of a present-minded and forward-looking people. These qualities are related to our virtues: the openness to cultural and demographic change that makes us a model for an increasingly plural world; the capacity to ...
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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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