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How the Liberal Arts Can Save Liberal Democracy (Paperback)
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How the Liberal Arts Can Save Liberal Democracy (Paperback)
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Currently, liberal democracy is threatened by authoritarian
movements, not just in the United States but also in societies
around the world. The liberal arts helps to arrest these tendencies
because of the support by citizens in liberal democracies for the
values the latter shares with the liberal arts: autonomy and
freedom. Autonomy is the capacity to make reasoned decisions about
a host of political, social, and personal matters-independent of
external parties who seek to control our lives for the sake of
their ends and at the cost of our freedom. But autonomy depends on
people being able to enter into discussions-what I call discourses
of mutual respect-designed to test ideas in public against facts
and good reasons. This discourse is facilitated by an enlarged
culture through which individuals identify what they hold in common
and by which individuals work to understand their differences. Now,
authoritarian regimes reject autonomy because it empowers citizens
to designate the boundaries and content of political authority.
Liberal democracies, in contrast, embrace autonomy because it is
the basis for the political institutions that provide civic
equality-and through it-the freedom of citizens to control their
destiny. Yet, ironically, an enlarged culture and the discourse of
mutual respect that, together, sustain autonomy are not likely to
be produced within a highly partisan political atmosphere of a
liberal democracy. Still, a liberal democracy is open to the
importation of these elements from the liberal arts. Thus, saving
liberal democracy from authoritarianism depends on a robust liberal
arts presence in society. What reforms of the liberal arts are
needed to make this objective possible? Much rides on the answer to
this question. For the fact is that if the liberal arts recedes to
a whisper, liberal democracy is likely to be defeated by the
authoritarian's bluster-filled and always nihilist roar.
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