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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... less fear than Burke of democratic violence , he was better able to see democracy's less apocalyptic dangers . Tocqueville's demo- cratic man , like Plato's , was not so much brutish as fatuous . The French lawyer and aristocrat looked ...
... less successful than either religion or the family in preserving any claim to be more than the handmaidens of politics . They were a political creation from the beginning , and , as Richard Brodhead points out in his essay , there are ...
... less self - righteous about any one of them . A more contentious account of democratic paradox comes from James Scott , who also takes the SAT as one of his examples . For Scott , democracy creates problems for social decisions : how to ...
... less in political democracy than in cultural features we associate with democratic values , such as individuality , entrepreneurialism , and meritocracy . Her basic contrast is between the United States and the Pacific and European ...
... less than five minutes, in a way an ordinary person can understand. The second is a credible goal, and the first is positively indispensable. Considered together, however, they sug- gest an even more pessimistic possibility for the ...
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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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