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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... tion : that religiously inspired arguments deserve equal status in public life with other moral positions , so long as they are not made in a spirit of bad faith , violence , or other violations of the standard of civility . Carter's ...
... tion has become a shackle on democracy . Scott has a good deal more than this to say about the bewitching quality of " scientific " or quantitative substitutes for qualitative judgments , but this democratic paradox is at the core of ...
... tion can reduce the inequality that markets produce alongside wealth. Well- crafted programs can compensate for the ''externalities'' that market calcula- tions of profit and loss exclude, such as environmental damage. The essential ...
... tion . Let me start by describing more carefully the assumed connection be- tween political and psychological order on which the argument of the Re- public is based . Plato's Republic is an extended conversation among Socrates and a ...
... tion we call conformity, the condition of being indistinguishable from others, and to it we assign a strongly negative value. The second component of our concept of individuality is the idea of self- invention. To be an individual one ...
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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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