Democratic faith
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
eBook, English, ©2005
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2005
History
1 online resource (xvii, 365 pages) : illustrations
9781400826896, 1400826896
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Faith in man
Democratic transformation
Democracy as trial : toward a critique of democratic faith
Protagoras unbound : the democratic mythology of Protagoras's "great speech"
Civil religion and the democratic faith of Rousseau
American faith : the translation of religious faith to democratic faith
"A pattern laid up in heaven" : Plato's democratic ideal
The only permanent state : Tocqueville on religion and democracy
Hope in America : the chastened faith of Reinhold Niebuhr and Christopher Lasch
Conclusion : a model of democratic charity