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The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
In this third edition of The Course of American Democratic Thought,
Ralph H. Gabriel, with the assistance of Robert H. Walker, brings
his seminal study up to date by taking into account the complicated
and fascinating interplay between the events of the past thirty
years and the American democratic faith. Although many of the
trends had been anticipated in the earlier editions of this work,
those discussions only paved the way for the present chronicle of
democratic faith in an era that combines nostalgia for traditional
values with an almost incredible rate of technical innovation.
Gabriel argues that the values he first summarized in the foreword
to the first edition, written thirty years ago, are still a basic
point of reference for social and political argument. But, he asks,
are they the same basic values? The title he chose for the final
section of the second edition, "The American Democratic Faith
Survives in a Time of Revolution and Violence," still seems
appropriate, he believes, but there is no doubt that this faith has
changed both in context and meaning since that time. This third
edition traces this evolution during the last thirty years. Only
minor changes and corrections have been made in the first
twenty-eight chapters; the bibliography has been updated, but the
documentation stands. The last five chapters of this edition
represent the addition of considerable new material and the
revision and rearrangement of what was already there.
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