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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... common people — and near the Mon- ument to the People's Heroes , a secular temple to Communist China's lead- ing figures ( a building that resembles in function if not in form the French Panthéon ) . In this public space fraught with ...
... common weal. How is it, then, that this form of rule based on epistemic modesty and an embrace of imperfection and human fallibility, undergirded not by any claims to truth but instead by pragmatic adjustment and prudential calcula ...
... common citizen must be some- thing of a saint and something of a hero . We see , therefore , how justly flattering and profound , and at the same time how ominous , was Montequieu's saying that the principle of democracy is virtue.5 It ...
... common with faculty in economics departments . Connections to the world of politics , politicians , and citizens are in jeopardy , thus suggesting a problem that is more than merely " academic " in nature . Against the growing ( and ...
... common what each would be in- capable of achieving alone ; democracy , by extension , represents the common effort to transcend " mere life " and , rather , to provide the possibility of " the good life " -one impossible for each alone ...
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