America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for EmpireTransaction Publishers, 31.12.2011 - 234 Seiten Urged on by a powerful ideological and political movement, George W. Bush committed the United States to a quest for empire. American values and principles were universal, he asserted, and should guide the transformation of the world. Claes Ryn sees this drive for virtuous empire as the triumph of forces that in the last several decades acquired decisive influence in both the American parties, the foreign policy establishment, and the media. Public intellectuals like William Bennett, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Michael Novak, Richard Perle, and Norman Podhoretz argued that the United States was an exceptional nation and should bring "democracy," "freedom," and "capitalism" to countries not yet enjoying them. Ryn finds the ideology of American empire strongly reminiscent of the French Jacobinism of the eighteenth century. He describes the drive for armed world hegemony as part of a larger ideological whole that both expresses and aggravates a crisis of democracy and, more generally, of American and Western civilization. America the Virtuous sees the new Jacobinism as symptomatic of America shedding an older sense of the need for restraints on power. Checks provided by the US Constitution have been greatly weakened with the erosion of traditional moral and other culture. |
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... idea that societies ought to be radically remade and that those who know what needs to be done should dominate others for their benefit. Communism is a particularly stark example of a plan to improve the human condition that placed ...
... idea that societies ought to be radically remade and that those who know what needs to be done should dominate others for their benefit. Communism is a particularly stark example of a plan to improve the human condition that placed ...
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... idea for how the world should look. Now that communism has been defeated people of that kind are trying to implement their own plan for global control. The result is a major movement in behalf of American world hegemony, not to say ...
... idea for how the world should look. Now that communism has been defeated people of that kind are trying to implement their own plan for global control. The result is a major movement in behalf of American world hegemony, not to say ...
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... ideas and phenomena under examination. The mode of discussion may on occasion seem overly philosophical and scholarly. Yet, as should be obvious from this prologue, the book is not an abstract academic exercise of little practical ...
... ideas and phenomena under examination. The mode of discussion may on occasion seem overly philosophical and scholarly. Yet, as should be obvious from this prologue, the book is not an abstract academic exercise of little practical ...
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... ideas of the older society. The change within American and Western society as a whole ultimately involves a new view of man, society, and the world and has palpable political, moral, cultural, and intellectual manifestations. Western ...
... ideas of the older society. The change within American and Western society as a whole ultimately involves a new view of man, society, and the world and has palpable political, moral, cultural, and intellectual manifestations. Western ...
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Inhalt
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The Crisis of Western Civilization andthe Rise of Jacobinism | 15 |
The New Jacobinism | 25 |
Creative Traditionalism or Radicalism? | 43 |
Democracy | 49 |
Contrasting Forms of Morality and Society | 55 |
Aristocratic and AntiAristocraticDemocracy | 59 |
The Father of Democratism | 71 |
Democracy in Peril | 97 |
The New Jacobins and American Democracy | 111 |
Democracy for the World | 123 |
Jacobin Capitalism | 145 |
Equality | 155 |
A Center that Cannot Hold | 165 |
Responsible Nationhood | 177 |
Needed | 189 |
Love of Ones Own and Love of the Common | 77 |
Moral Universality | 83 |
Pluralistic Political Morality | 89 |
Index | 213 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abstract Allan Bloom Ameri American assertive become beliefs Bob Woodward Bush called capitalism central Charles Krauthammer Christian circumstances Claes G common conflict conservatives constitutional democracy decentralized defend democratism democratist desire diversity dominate Edmund Burke elites Enlightenment equality first foreign policy Framers free market freedom French Jacobins French Revolution George W global groups historical human ideas immigration individuals influence institutions intellectual interests Jean-Jacques Rousseau kind liberals liberty major majoritarian man’s ment military modern moral and cultural moral universality nature neo-Jacobin neoconservatives old Western opportunity particular person philosophical Plato plebiscitary popular government popular rule possible potential president problems radical reflected regimes responsibility role Rousseau sense social and political Social Contract Straussians thinking tion today’s Western traditional Western trends United unity universal principles virtue virtuous empire Washington Post West Western civilization Western democracy Western society Western world William Kristol