Democracy and Its Friendly Critics

Tocqueville and Political Life Today

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Democracy and Its Friendly Critics addresses a variety of modern political and social concerns, such as the moral dimension of democracy, the theoretical challenges to democracy in our time, the religious dimension of liberty, and the meaning of work in contemporary American life. Taking innovative and unexpected approaches toward familiar topics, the essays present engaging insights into a democratic society, and the contributors include some of today's leading figures in political philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Applications of Political Theory
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780739107621
• ISBN-10: 0739107623
• Artikelnr.: 26183385

Autorenporträt

Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor of Government at Berry College.

Inhaltsangabe

1 What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today 2 National
Character and National Soul 3 Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Kolnai,
Tocqueville, and the Moral Foundation of Democracy 4 Tocqueville on
Pantheism, Materialism, and Catholicism 5 The Modern Revolution and the
Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot 6 Alexis de Tocqueville
on the Incommensurability of America's Founding Principles 7 Citizenship as
a Vocation 8 Compassionate Conservatism and Biotechnology: Some
Tocquevillian Reflections 9 Religion and the Limits of Liberal Pluralism 10
Profiles in American Thomism 11 Christian Love and the Foundations of
American Politics: Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln 12 Democracy's
Darkside? Robert Kraynak's Catholic Reflections on the Soul in the Liberal
Democratic Dispensation 13 Machiavelli Meets the Mob: Palminteri'sA Bronx
Tale