Democracy Reconsidered

Herausgeber: Busch, Elizabeth Kaufer

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Produktbeschreibung

Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine the lessons that novelists, philosophers, and political theorists have for democratic societies as they progress towards postmodern skepticism or even disbelief in the absolute principles that form the foundation of democracies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 633g
• ISBN-13: 9780739124802
• ISBN-10: 0739124803
• Artikelnr.: 26331594

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Kaufer Busch is assistant professor of American Studies and Government and co-director of the Center for American Studies and Civic Leadership at Christopher Newport University. Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor of Government at Berry College.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction: Why a Reconsideration of Democracy is Needed Part 2
Part One: Democratic Relativism: A Crisis of Self-Evidence Chapter 3
Chapter One: Our Crisis of Self-Evidence Chapter 4 Chapter Two: The
American Context of Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History Chapter 5
Chapter Three: Gender Feminism in America: A Reconsideration of Nietzsche's
Anti-Feminism Chapter 6 Chapter Four: Anti-Snobs and Anti-Artists Part 7
Part Two: Democracy's Transformation of the Human Character and Soul
Chapter 8 Chapter Five: Autonomy and Cruelty: Rorty and Montaigne on the
Social Bond Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Democracy and Philosophy as a Way of
Life Chapter 10 Chapter Seven: A Tale of Two Liberals: Re-Discovering
American Liberalism in Flannery O'Connor's The Barber Part 12 Part Three:
Educating the Democratic Mind and Spirit Chapter 12 Chapter Eight: The Rift
in the Modern Mind: Tocqueville and Percy on the Rise of the Cartesian Self
Chapter 14 Chapter Nine: Religion and Community in Liberal Education and
Liberal Democracy Chapter 15 Chapter Ten: A Plea to Protect and Promote the
Small Liberal Arts College as Such Chapter 16 Chapter Eleven: Liberal
Education and the Democratic Man Chapter 17 Chapter Twelve: Liberal
Education: A Friendly Critic of Liberal Democracy Part 18 Part Four:
Democracy in American Politics and Society Chapter 19 Chapter Thirteen:
Friendly Critics: Tocqueville and Croly on American Political Parties
Chapter 20 Chapter Fourteen: Bioethics and the American Characterwith a
response by Eric Stone entitled "Of Revulsion and Joy" Chapter 21 Chapter
Fifteen: Progress or Tyranny? The Goodridge Dissents Chapter 22 Chapter
Sixteen: Women Against Liberation: Opposing Feminism in a Democratic Age