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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... sense of history or the transcendent . “ I see , " Tocqueville wrote of the democratic character , “ an innumerable multi- tude of men , alike and equal , constantly circling around in pursuit of the petty and banal pleasures with which ...
... sense of worth and belonging, than about increases in income. They will fight for status before they will fight for bread. Shapiro reports that people do not demand redistribution in the United States because they believe in the ...
... sense of unique historical purpose in the American project. America stood in, somehow, for all the world, and our future was by definition humanity's future. Gaddis proposes a more modest view: history has not chosen us, at least not ...
... sense and nonsense. This warning has become more poignant in the years since Gelern- ter delivered his DeVane lecture. We are now much more sharply aware than we were then that all forms of fanaticism, including the nationalism and fun ...
... sense, we are all democrats today, and Socrates' ironic skewering of these principles, and of the democratic way of life that rests on them, cannot help but offend the modern reader who admires the very things that Socrates mocks. It is ...
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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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