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Democracy Reconsidered (Hardcover, New)
Elizabeth Kaufer Busch; Contributions by David Alvis, Martha Bayles, James W. Ceaser, Eric Cohen, …
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R2,967
Discovery Miles 29 670
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Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy
in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter
Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of
democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The
essays included in this volume examine the lessons that novelists,
philosophers, and political theorists have for democratic societies
as they progress towards postmodern skepticism or even disbelief in
the absolute principles that form the foundation of democracies.
Led by the provocative observations of Lawler, a member of
President Bush's Council on Bioethics, the first section lays out
the predicament caused by the gravitation of democracy towards a
disbelief in absolute truth, leading to a "crisis of
self-evidence." The second section searches for tools that one
might use to restore health to the individual and community within
American democracy, including spiritual faith, creative autonomy,
and philosophic inquiry. The third section addresses the supposed
"crisis in liberal education" caused by our "crisis of
self-evidence." Included essays explore the extent to which the
professed aims of liberal education may be at odds with the
cultivation of dutiful citizens. The book closes by considering
some of the political consequences of employing content-less
freedom as the primary standard by which human behaviour is judged.
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Democracy Reconsidered (Paperback)
Elizabeth Kaufer Busch; Contributions by David Alvis, Martha Bayles, James W. Ceaser, Eric Cohen, …
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R1,276
Discovery Miles 12 760
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy
in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter
Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of
democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The
essays included in this volume examine the lessons that novelists,
philosophers, and political theorists have for democratic societies
as they progress towards postmodern skepticism or even disbelief in
the absolute principles that form the foundation of democracies.
Led by the provocative observations of Lawler, a member of
President Bush's Council on Bioethics, the first section lays out
the predicament caused by the gravitation of democracy towards a
disbelief in absolute truth, leading to a 'crisis of
self-evidence.' The second section searches for tools that one
might use to restore health to the individual and community within
American democracy, including spiritual faith, creative autonomy,
and philosophic inquiry. The third section addresses the supposed
'crisis in liberal education' caused by our 'crisis of
self-evidence.' Included essays explore the extent to which the
professed aims of liberal education may be at odds with the
cultivation of dutiful citizens. The book closes by considering
some of the political consequences of employing content-less
freedom as the primary standard by which human behaviour is judged.
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