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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... politics explores a persistent paradox . On the one hand , political rhetoric and consti- tutional law have both enshrined the family as a perfectly private realm , home to intimate connections that politics must not disturb . In early ...
... political institution . Good families were thought necessary to breed good citizens , as much in John Adams's time as in today's debates over family ... politics — but part of the fractious political community we have made 6 Jedediah Purdy.
... political community we have made together . Many of us are also in the habit of viewing the separation of church and state as a one- sided battle , in which self - certain zealots teem outside the walls of the state , trying to break in ...
... political imperative arises : to create ways of making these decisions that replace subjective judg- ment with ... politics . Inherent in any test or cost- benefit analysis are judgments about what counts as valuable , what is a cost and ...
... political power . Thus they undermine the demo- cratic premise of equal political and social standing . They can also erode the democratic value of self - determination , by throwing women and men into a labor market where they barter ...
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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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