Democratic FaithPrinceton University Press, 10.01.2009 - 388 Seiten 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 frequently couched in religious language, such as the need for political "redemption." This is all the more striking given the frequent accompanying condemnation of traditional religious belief that informs the "democratic faith.? |
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... Rousseau 140 CHAPTER 6 American Faith : The Translation of Religious Faith to Democratic Faith 166 PART III : FRIENDLY CRITICS OF DEMOCRATIC FAITH CHAPTER 7 " A Pattern Laid Up in Heaven " : Plato's Democratic Ideal 191 CHAPTER 8 The ...
... Rousseau were transported from Ermenonville on the Isle des Peupliers to his current and final resting place in the Panthéon of Paris. The procession, which at var- ious points along the journey sang songs written by Rousseau, was met ...
... Rousseau's contempt for big city life underscores the irony of his even- tual apotheosis in that city, another aspect of his writing suggests a certain fittingness to his entombment in the Panthéon. Following the successes of the French ...
... Rousseau's Social Contract , Rousseau declares his in- tention to " take men as they are and the laws as they might be . " 2 A less utopian yet more idealistic formulation perhaps cannot be found in the his- tory of political thought ...
... Rousseau suggests , to align “ men as they are " with " laws as they might be . " Yet , if this simple dictum of Rousseau , if only implicitly , underlies appar- ently modest democratic endorsement that most largely share — if , further ...
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