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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... women and men into a labor market where they barter their best years and hours for sustenance , with evenings and weekends added into the bargain . Markets unseat the solidarity that Whitman and David Bromwich put near the center of ...
... women , children and adults , teachers and students all behave as equals , and the rulers are chosen by lot — the only method , we are led to conclude , that does not entail the acknowledgment of a rank order among those selected . How ...
... the forms that lie beyond change and corruption, and to chase after unreality instead. It is to turn our attention from being to nonbeing, and while Plato — recognized that most men and women — all the The Democratic Soul 25.
... women — all the lovers of sights and sounds — are in fact more attached to the world of things that come into being and pass away than they are to the realm of imperishable forms , he would have consid- ered a view that deliberately ...
... women in accordance with some ruling principle of order , in accor- dance with what Socrates calls the community's " regime " ( the term we use to translate the Greek word politeia , which is also sometimes translated as “ re- public ...
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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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