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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... human dignity . Whitman and Lincoln would have known that tradition as well - indeed , Whitman ac- knowledged it in Democratic Vistas . Skeptical observers of democracy , such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Edmund Burke , stressed that no ...
... human , untutored by tradition , without awe for their inherited institutions , left with only their “ own naked shivering nature . ” Naked human nature was not merely undignified but often violent . People loved to rule arbitrarily ...
... human values under one flag , whether the banner belongs to democratic politics , the Christian religion , or any other creed . People legitimately value , even revere , many kinds of things , and some of those things are irreconcilably ...
... human beings even in recent decades. Without such freedom, political liberty would be meaningless. Moreover, capitalism supports the cultural ferment of democracy by ensuring that wealth builds up in many different centers, creating ...
... Human affairs are full of contingency, happenstance, and small incidents with huge consequences. The implicit target of Gaddis's essay is a strain of triumphalism that has affected the American self-image from the beginning. The first ...
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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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