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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... individual becomes convinced that he can do just about everything and can manage almost any role, and everybody experiments with himself, improvises, makes new experiments, enjoys his experiments; and all nature ceases and becomes art ...
... individuals of the temptation of seeking more dangerous ones.3 If 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 ...
... individual self-realization and uniqueness. In the absence of such a faith, am- bitions might wither amid cruel facts and hopes dissipate in the face of re- lentless reality. Democracy—that ancient combination of ancient words meaning ...
... individual and collective goodness , and needs only to achieve the realization of this inherent decency to bring about democracy in its most fully manifested , even ideal form.3 Democracy , in this succinct formulation , seems the most ...
... individual preferences cease , in some way , to become foremost in people's minds , thereby rendering auto- matic a “ view of the whole ” —one can expect that all subsequent public con- siderations will be undertaken in a similar spirit ...
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