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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... practices that can endanger demo- cratic values. What, though, are democratic values? Precisely because almost everyone nowadays claims to be a democrat, and democracy is presented often as neces- sary and sometimes as sufficient to ...
... practices " which made power gentle , ' nor would their subjects know the habits that made “ obedience liberal . " They were likely to end at each other's throats . By pulling down the edifices on which the soul models itself ...
... practicing the single function for which , in Socrates ' words , " his nature [ makes ] him naturally most fit . " A regime is just , on Socrates ' view , only when the individuals who compose it " mind their own business " and refrain ...
... practicing gymnastic , and again idling and neglecting every- thing ; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied with philosophy . Often he engages in politics and , jumping up , says and does what- ever chances to come ...
... practice and almost by temperament , soft - spoken writers . But they know that they are not alone ; they know that someone is listening . A text from Whitman : " Whoever degrades another degrades me . " And from Lincoln : “ As I would ...
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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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