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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... thing. Self-rule has no abstract existence; it always belongs to one specific people, and a fair part of its business turns out to be expressing, or deciding, who we are. Even if the goal is to talk about democracy in general, it is ...
... thing blown about by thoughtless passion and blind appetite. It answers to no standard of refinement or excellence that might lend it discipline or form. The democrat is insensible to reverence, except perhaps for crude awe or animal ...
... things of this world . . . inspire men with a certain scorn of material goods . . . engender deep convictions and prepare the way for acts of profound devotion . " It was unsuited to " refining mores , elevating manners , and causing ...
... things , and some of those things are irreconcilably different . The wall between church and state , however shifting and contingent it may be , exists in acknowledg- ment of a division within the soul . To try to break down that ...
... things , some of them mutually contradictory , we are likely to create paradoxes like this one . The lesson Brodhead draws from this difficulty is not at all despairing ; rather , his essay is a modestly phrased and entirely unpompous ...
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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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