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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... examples of nonpolitical practices that can endanger demo- cratic values. What, though, are democratic values? Precisely because almost everyone nowadays claims to be a democrat, and democracy is presented often as neces- sary and ...
... examples . Cott points to another paradox , one that might not have surprised Tocque- ville . Although political values often press into family life , in the twentieth century the private values of comfort and security have been the ...
... example of the Scholastic Aptitude Test ( SAT ) to drive home the point . The SAT was introduced , in good part , to ... examples . For Scott , democracy creates problems for social decisions : how to spend public money , whom to admit ...
... example , possesses reality on Socrates ' view only to the extent that it participates in or exemplifies the form of beauty itself . To that extent , it shares in the reality of the form it reflects . But of course no vase can ...
... example, his insistence that our love of individual human beings is a lesser and confused form of our love of the general qualities they represent, and his description of the activity of founding political commu- nities as a kind of ...
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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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