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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... individuals or opinions to be superior, should it not wish to be ruled by them? The equality of opinion and appetite may also be, as Alexis de Tocqueville suggested, a product of democratic rule: a social life without distinctions of ...
... individuals who embody some aspect of hu- man character to perfection , and who , by their conduct , teach us about that part of our own potential . For Bromwich , the poet and the politician , both self - made men who became American ...
... individuals to be merely 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 ...
... individuals were much alike , because distinctive- ness , refinement , and high ideals were produced only within ... individual to stand apart and describe it all , without claiming to be better than any part of it . Both Whitman and ...
... individual therein the utmost well - being , protecting him as far as possible from all afflictions , then it is good to make conditions equal and to establish a democratic government . The American democrats whom Cott describes would ...
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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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