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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... role, and everybody experiments with himself, improvises, makes new experiments, enjoys his experiments; and all nature ceases and becomes art. —FRiEDRiCH NiETzSCHE, The Gay Science, aphorism 356 This book has been written against a ...
... role of civil religion in the service of civic virtue. The National Assembly's choice of the Cathedral of St. Geneviève for its civic “necropolis” was an inspired one for reasons beyond the church's cen- tral and prominent location ...
... role and promise of reason in judgment inform theories of liberal democracy with a concomitant stress on rights, procedures, constitutionalism, rule of law, and a greater role for deliberation, whether juridical or more popular ...
... role of the Bill of Rights , which he viewed otherwise as " parchment barriers , ” toward forming a democratic spirit among the people.16 By declaring the rights “ in that solemn manner , ” they would “ acquire by degrees the character ...
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9780691118710_4CH2 | 50 |
9780691118710_5CH3 | 84 |
9780691118710_6CH4 | 117 |
9780691118710_7CH5 | 140 |
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9780691118710_12CH10 | 270 |
9780691118710_13NOT | 289 |
9780691118710_14IND | 361 |
9780691118710_15AFT | 367 |