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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... results to correct markets' antidemocratic tendencies. Still, he sees no essential opposition between market realities and democratic values. The purpose of Ian Shapiro's essay is to ask why democratic politics does not do much more ...
... result , the supervision and direction of those performing lower functions in the city remain in the control of those who by nature are equipped to guide and direct them . But for the members of a political association to acknowledge ...
... results. Plato's equation of form and being is also the source of his negative view of democracy. For us, democracy is made attractive and legitimate by its commit- ment to the ideal of individuality. We justify democracy on the grounds ...
... " unsophisticated conscience " — for it takes resolve to shed sophistication — is a result of pro- longed and partly involuntary exposure to experience . Let me pause here to ― say a word for the kind of experience Whitman 40 David ...
... result in any case could not be foreseen , so long as assurance was given that slavery would not expand and would be allowed to die a natural death . Until the firing on Fort Sumter by the guns of the confederacy , he reiterated his ...
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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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