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Democracy Reconsidered
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2009
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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. Led by the provocative observations of Lawler, a member of President Bush's Council on Bioethics, the first section lays out the predicament caused by the gravitation of democracy towards a disbelief in absolute truth, leading to a 'crisis of self-evidence.' The second section searches for tools that one might use to restore health to the individual and community within American democracy, including spiritual faith, creative autonomy, and philosophic inquiry. The third section addresses the supposed 'crisis in liberal education' caused by our 'crisis of self-evidence.' Included essays explore the extent to which the professed aims of liberal education may be at odds with the cultivation of dutiful citizens. The book closes by considering some of the political consequences of employing content-less freedom as the primary standard by which human behaviour is judged.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2480-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3973-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
279
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction: Why a Reconsideration of DemocracyIs Needed, Elizabeth Kaufer Busch No access
1 Our Crisis of Self-Evidence, Peter Augustine Lawler No access
2 The American Context of Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History, James W Ceaser No access
3 Gender Feminism in America: A Reconsideration of Nietzsche's Anti-feminism, Elizabeth Kaufer Busch No access
4 Anti-Snobs and Anti-Artists, Martha Bayles No access
5 Autonomy and Cruelty: Rorty and Montaigne on the Social Bond, Ann Hartle No access
6 Democracy and Philosophy as a Way of Life, Michael Papazian No access
7 A Tale of Two Liberals: Rediscovering American Liberalism in Flannery O'Connor's The Barber, David Ramsey No access
8 The Rift in the Modem Mind: Tocqueville and Percyon the Rise of the Cartesian Self, Matthew Silman and Brian Smith No access
9 Religion and Community in Liberal Education and Liberal Democracy, Joseph M Knippenberg No access
10 A Plea to Protect and Promote the Small Liberal Arts College as Such, John Seery No access
11 Liberal Education and the Democratic Man, Carl Eric Scott No access
12 Liberal Education: A Friendly Critic of Liberal Democracy, Gayle McKeen No access
13 Friendly Critics: Tocqueville and Croly on American Political Parties, David Alvis No access
with a response by Eric Stone entitled "Of Revulsionand Joy " No access
15 Progress or Tyranny? The Goodridge Dissents, Paul Seaton No access
16 Women against Liberation: Opposing Feminism in a Democratic Age, Jocelyn Jones Evans No access
