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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... particular thing. Self-rule has no abstract existence; it always belongs to one specific people, and a fair part of its business turns out to be expressing, or deciding, who we are. Even if the goal is to talk about democracy in general ...
... particular reason to prefer one over another, and à la carte spirituality to salve any prick of discontent. Kronman's purpose in beginning from this account of democracy is to make a pair of points: first, it does describe us, however ...
... particular compromise , deeply shaped by the American experience and the cast of Protestant Christianity — not an eternal law that precedes our politics — but part of the fractious political community we have made 6 Jedediah Purdy.
... particular, is set up to slow demo- cratic will; the political parties are influenced by wealthy campaign contribu- tors; a two-party system prevents the growth of a radical program; and all politicians fear that higher taxes would ...
... particular issues, perhaps even a handful of selected cam- paign speeches. Rather than diffidently absorbing the flotsam of a long cam- paign, then staring blankly at a ballot and trying to remember who said that thing we liked about ...
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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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