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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... rejection by thinkers in antiquity, vilification by the medieval schoolman, suspicion during the humanistic period of the Renaissance, scorn by the Enlightenment “founders” of that oldest continuous regime that we call democratic ...
... rejection of claims to truth in the daily operation of demo- cratic politics , how can that be reconciled with inquisitorial denunciations of any such perceived “ truth claims " ? Is it possible to be fanatically anti- fanatical ? Is ...
... rejection of democracy as informed by an ideology or even faith that has since been superseded . We can perhaps fruitfully mine other parts of such philosophies for interesting and provocative observations , but at the 2 INTRODUCTION.
... rejecting the temptation for any form of democratic perfectionism or political utopianism more gener- ally.18 At the same time democracy can resist complacency through the very resources offered by that strong initial recognition of ...
... rejection of the vision of thorough- going transformation , opens up the possibility of an amelioration of demo- cratic politics and democratic culture — a prospect that would fall so short of “ transformation ” that any improvement ...
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