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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... possible only with support from practices and beliefs that democracy undid . Because Tocqueville had less fear than Burke of democratic violence , he was better able to see democracy's less apocalyptic dangers . Tocqueville's demo ...
... possible from all afflictions , then it is good to make conditions equal and to establish a democratic government . The American democrats whom Cott describes would surely agree . Stephen Carter takes aim at another platitude of ...
... possible, of course, to put brackets around the passage in question, to treat Socrates' antidemocratic views as an aristocratic prejudice that has little or nothing to do with the main arguments of the Republic, and in this way to ...
... possible combination of forms would have struck him as absurd, given the equation of form and being on which his conception of the world was based. For those of us who accept this idea, the challenge thus arises of explaining how ...
... possible reference in these words is very wide . It is the body speaking to the soul- the body must not be pressed by the soul to ascetic torments , even as its sensualism must not tamper with the soul's steadfastness- but it is also a ...
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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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