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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... possibility of true belief amid mistrust of fanaticism. If faith is a belief in that which is unseen, then it may be that democracy is as justifiably an object of faith as a distant and silent God. This is particularly the case for ...
... possibility of doubt amid that faith , and a faith that can sup- port that doubt . This study seeks to remind that faith can be a healthy ac- companiment to corrosive skepticism , and skepticism a necessary corrective to overweening ...
... possibility of democratic transforma- tion . In particular , by advancing a conception of human beings as both infi- nitely malleable and ameliorable , along with an accompanying belief in the compatibility or malleability of nature and ...
... possibility of a kind of " democratic tran- scendence ” and an overcoming of human alienation . 10 Again , Tocqueville's observations at the dawn of modern mass democracy are instructive , inas- much as he saw that democracy had a ...
... possibility of earthly redemption , and thus more deeply align “ democratic faith ” with theological faith in ways that its ad- herents rarely acknowledge or even realize . It remains a suggestive question whether the decline of ...
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