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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... for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources . IO 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I Contents Introduction Jedediah Purdy 1 1. The Democratic Soul Anthony.
... Soul Anthony T. Kronman 16 2. Lincoln and Whitman as Representative Americans David Bromwich 36 3. Public Emblem, Private Realm: Family and Polity in the United States Nancy F. Cott 53 4. Can Religion Tolerate Democracy? (And Vice Versa ...
... soul. Since Plato, democracy's many critics have sounded the same themes. They identify democracy with a leveling spirit that obliterates rank and authority, producing equality among persons, among opinions, and among appetites. This ...
... soul models itself , democracy , in Burke's most anxious imaginings , created a personality as isolated and untutored as Plato's democrat . A life of elevation , dignity , and mutual restraint seemed to him possible only with support ...
... soul . To try to break down that division , as fanatics of one stripe or another are sometimes inclined to do , would be a disaster . In Carter's view , democracy may not need religion , nor religion de- mocracy ; but here they are ...
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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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