Format:
Online-Ressource (388 p)
ISBN:
9780691118710
Series Statement:
New Forum Books v.45
Content:
The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick Deneen argues that among democracy's most ardent supporters there is an oft-expressed belief in the need to "transform" human beings in order to reconcile the sometimes disappointing reality of human self-interest with the democratic ideal of selfless commitment. This "transformative impulse" is fr
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Description based upon print version of record
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE: WORSHIPING DEMOCRACY: THE PANTHÉON AND THE GODDESS OF DEMOCRACY; INTRODUCTION: Dynamics of Democratic Faith; PART I: DEMOCRATIC FAITH AND ITS DISCONTENTS; CHAPTER 1 Faith in Man; CHAPTER 2 Democratic Transformation; CHAPTER 3 Democracy as Trial: Toward a Critique of Democratic Faith; PART II: VOICES OF THE DEMOCRATIC FAITHFUL; CHAPTER 4 Protagoras Unbound: The Democratic Mythology of Protagoras's "Great Speech"; CHAPTER 5 Civil Religion and the Democratic Faith of Rousseau; CHAPTER 6 American Faith: The Translation of Religious Faith to Democratic Faith
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PART III: FRIENDLY CRITICS OF DEMOCRATIC FAITHCHAPTER 7 "A Pattern Laid Up in Heaven": Plato's Democratic Ideal; CHAPTER 8 The Only Permanent State: Tocqueville on Religion and Democracy; CHAPTER 9 Hope in America: The Chastened Faith of Reinhold Niebuhr and Christopher Lasch; CONCLUSION: A Model of Democratic Charity; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400826896
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691163390
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Democratic Faith
Language:
English
Keywords:
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