America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for EmpireClaes G. Ryn Routledge, 05.07.2017 - 234 Seiten Urged on by a powerful ideological and political movement, George W. Bush committed the United States to a quest for empire. American values and principles were universal, he asserted, and should guide the transformation of the world. Claes Ryn sees this drive for virtuous empire as the triumph of forces that in the last several decades acquired decisive influence in both the American parties, the foreign policy establishment, and the media.Public intellectuals like William Bennett, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Michael Novak, Richard Perle, and Norman Podhoretz argued that the United States was an exceptional nation and should bring "democracy," "freedom," and "capitalism" to countries not yet enjoying them. Ryn finds the ideology of American empire strongly reminiscent of the French Jacobinism of the eighteenth century. He describes the drive for armed world hegemony as part of a larger ideological whole that both expresses and aggravates a crisis of democracy and, more generally, of American and Western civilization. America the Virtuous sees the new Jacobinism as symptomatic of America shedding an older sense of the need for restraints on power. Checks provided by the US Constitution have been greatly weakened with the erosion of traditional moral and other culture. |
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... traditional civilization. Paradoxes and tensions abound; Western civilization is indeed not moving in any one direction. Yet careful study reveals large, persistent, and pervasive trends that are in general incompatible with traditional ...
... traditional civilization. Paradoxes and tensions abound; Western civilization is indeed not moving in any one direction. Yet careful study reveals large, persistent, and pervasive trends that are in general incompatible with traditional ...
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... Traditional civilization has taught men to rein in their willfulness through moral self-control and intellectual humility and has created various religious, social, and political supports for this effort. It has sought to subordinate ...
... Traditional civilization has taught men to rein in their willfulness through moral self-control and intellectual humility and has created various religious, social, and political supports for this effort. It has sought to subordinate ...
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... traditional attitudes about self and nation made many Americans uneasy about this kind of global ambition, but a justifiable desire to punish the perpetrators of the attack on the United States and to head off further attacks also made ...
... traditional attitudes about self and nation made many Americans uneasy about this kind of global ambition, but a justifiable desire to punish the perpetrators of the attack on the United States and to head off further attacks also made ...
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... traditional restraints on the will to power and for exercising American power on the largest possible scale. People whom the ideology defines as virtuous are entitled to rule the world for its benefit. According to this ideology, the ...
... traditional restraints on the will to power and for exercising American power on the largest possible scale. People whom the ideology defines as virtuous are entitled to rule the world for its benefit. According to this ideology, the ...
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... to its rhetoric, the ideology of virtuous empire helps erode what remains of more traditional forms of self-discipline and responsibility. If present trends continue, America and its European allies will, for the 10 America the Virtuous.
... to its rhetoric, the ideology of virtuous empire helps erode what remains of more traditional forms of self-discipline and responsibility. If present trends continue, America and its European allies will, for the 10 America the Virtuous.
Inhalt
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1 The Crisis of Western Civilization and the Rise of Jacobinism | 15 |
2 The New Jacobinism | 25 |
3 Creative Traditionalism or Radicalism? | 43 |
Plebiscitary or Constitutional? | 49 |
5 Contrasting Forms of Morality and Society | 55 |
6 Aristocratic and AntiAristocratic Democracy | 59 |
7 The Father of Democratism | 71 |
11 Democracy in Peril | 97 |
12 The New Jacobins and American Democracy | 111 |
13 Democracy for the World | 123 |
14 Jacobin Capitalism | 145 |
15 Equality | 155 |
16 A Center that Cannot Hold | 165 |
17 Responsible Nationhood | 177 |
A New Moral Realism | 189 |
8 Love of Ones Own and Love of the Common | 77 |
A Philosophical Interlude | 83 |
10 Pluralistic Political Morality | 89 |
Index | 213 |
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