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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... perhaps America's greatest celebrator, and also a critic who wrote with the passion of one saddened by the failings of what he most loves. These essays explore democracy in America, because democracy, although it is today's universal ...
... perhaps for crude awe or animal self-regard. Because he does not honor anything or anyone as his superior, his world is flattened into banality, unleavened by higher, purer, or nobler impulses. In contemporary imagery, democracy is ...
... perhaps , but one performed in the service of a new ruling value . If we do not recognize this , then we fail to see ourselves clearly . Kronman's essay exemplifies the aim of this volume : to bring large and perennial questions into ...
... perhaps , had the last word on democrats ' capacity for " acts of profound devotion " when at Gettysburg he spoke , as plainly and precisely as ever , of " the last full measure of devotion . ” Most Americans , though , do not take the ...
... perhaps , be provoked to consider both positions carefully . Richard Levin , president of Yale University , offers nearly the opposite view of the relationship between markets and democracy . In his essay , he contrasts America's ...
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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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