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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... nature ceases and becomes art. —FRiEDRiCH NiETzSCHE, The Gay Science, aphorism 356 This book has been written against a background of reckless optimism and reckless despair. It holds that Progress and Doom are two sides of the same ...
... the compatibility or malleability of nature and the universe to such perfection- ist inclinations , the impulse to " perfectibility " becomes an integral compo- nent of democratic faith . Alexis de Tocqueville observed this 4 INTRODUCTION.
... nature , ” or invocations of necessary limits and cautions . Democratic faith tends to reject tragedy . For this reason , antifoundational believers in democracy are concomi- tantly hostile to forms of philosophy and “ faith ...
... nature , much of contemporary democratic theory rests content with calls for " self- transformation , ” impersonal mechanisms such as “ constitutional transfor- mation , " or by means of an education that 6 INTRODUCTION.
... — whereas " agonistic " democratic theory places more reliance upon the trans- formative nature of democratic politics toward the end of securing demo- cratically desirable outcomes by democratically driven means. Strikingly, each approach.
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