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. |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 44
... kind of social membership that is partly imaginary but that elevates us in our own minds. It may be that Burke was wrong: we have our ''pleasing illusions,'' as surely as the subjects of monarchical France did. The empire of light and ...
... kind of political regime might emerge and to a description of its features. Having completed this part of their inquiry, Socrates and his friends turn, toward the end of the Republic, to an exploration of four less good regimes ...
... kind of order that exists at the level of the individual not only resembles the order that characterizes the political community itself but is also a cause of its coming into being and vice versa , the order of cities and souls ...
... kind of self-invention has been called by different names. Some philosophers call it autonomy, and others authenticity, but what- ever name we give it, it is an essential feature of the concept of individuality to which we assign such ...
... kind of craftsmanship, whose success is to be judged solely by the resemblance of the product to the blueprint the craftsman has followed, rather than as a type of artistry whose success is measured, in part at least, by the novelty and ...
Содержание
1 | |
16 | |
36 | |
53 | |
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 |
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American Democracy Jedediah Purdy,Anthony T. Kronman,Cynthia Farrar Ограниченный просмотр - 2008 |
Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American Democracy Jedediah Purdy,Anthony T. Kronman,Cynthia Farrar Недоступно для просмотра - 2004 |