Democratic faith

Democratic faith / Patrick J. Deneen.

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...

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Main Author: Deneen, Patrick J., 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005.
Series:New forum books.
Subjects:
Democracy > Philosophy.
Democracy > History.
Democracy > Moral and ethical aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Democracy
Democracy > Moral and ethical aspects
Democracy > Philosophy
Democratie.
Politieke filosofie.
Meningen.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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