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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... Religion Tolerate Democracy? (And Vice Versa?) Stephen L. Carter 67 5. Taking Democracy to School 6. Richard H. Brodhead 99 The Misuse of Numbers: Audits, Quantification, and the Obfuscation of Politics James C. Scott, with Matthew A ...
... from other aspects of American experience—free markets, religion, fam- ily life, the Cold War, higher education. Democracy gives its shape to each of these, and sometimes it threatens to overrun them all, turning 1 Introduction.
... religious belief are only the most notorious examples of nonpolitical practices that can endanger demo- cratic values. What, though, are democratic values? Precisely because almost everyone nowadays claims to be a democrat, and ...
... religious faith . Nancy Cott's historical treatment of the family's place in American politics explores a persistent paradox . On the one hand , political rhetoric and consti- tutional law have both enshrined the family as a perfectly ...
... religion , nor religion de- mocracy ; but here they are , consigned to live together , with many people committed comfortably or awkwardly to both . The public schools have been less successful than either religion or the family in ...
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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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