Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American Democracy

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Jedediah 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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Introduction
1
1 The Democratic Soul
16
2 Lincoln and Whitman as Representative Americans
36
Family and Polity in the United States
53
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
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8 Democracy and the Market
154

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Jedediah Purdy is a graduate of Yale Law School and the author of Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World and For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today.

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