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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... decisions : how to spend public money , whom to admit to elite schools , and other choices that affect the prospects of individuals and communities . The democratic premise of equality- that anyone's judg- ment should count as much as ...
... decisions: it is an activity, to which people sub- mit themselves, and which sometimes changes them. What David Bromwich judges from the vantage point of literature and history, Farrar concludes by way of political theory and firsthand ...
... decisions , which can either inhibit or foster a culture of small - scale initiative in ideas and research . If we have the research culture we deserve , it is not because our political culture guaranteed it to us but because our ...
... Decision , offering his own interpretation of the well - known phrase . The signers of the Declaration of Independence , he says , defined with tolerable distinctness in what respects they did consider all men created equal - equal in ...
... Decision , where , for the first time , he asks his white listeners to imagine the slave not as an other , but as another self — a “ Me myself " or " what I am , " to borrow Whitman's language — subject to a degra- dation without end ...
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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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