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America is a nation that celebrates diversity and freedom of
conscience. Yet, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed, democratic
times often demand conformity. Nowadays, conformity might be
enforced in the name of diversity itself, and go so far as to
infringe on the rights of conscience, expression, association, and
religious freedom. Americans have recently been confronted by this
paradox in various ways, from federal health care mandates, to
campus speech codes, to consumer boycotts, to public intimidation,
to vexatious litigation, to private corporations dismissing
employees for expressing certain political views. In this book,
Bradley C. S. Watson brings together leading thinkers from a
variety of disciplines to examine the manner and extent to which
conformity is demanded by contemporary American law and social
practice. Contributors also consider the long-term results of such
demands for conformity for the health-and even survival-of a
constitutional republic.
America is a nation that celebrates diversity and freedom of
conscience. Yet, as Alexis de Tocqueville observed, democratic
times often demand conformity. Nowadays, conformity might be
enforced in the name of diversity itself, and go so far as to
infringe on the rights of conscience, expression, association, and
religious freedom. Americans have recently been confronted by this
paradox in various ways, from federal health care mandates, to
campus speech codes, to consumer boycotts, to public intimidation,
to vexatious litigation, to private corporations dismissing
employees for expressing certain political views. In this book,
Bradley C. S. Watson brings together leading thinkers from a
variety of disciplines to examine the manner and extent to which
conformity is demanded by contemporary American law and social
practice. Contributors also consider the long-term results of such
demands for conformity for the health-and even survival-of a
constitutional republic.
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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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R4,198
Discovery Miles 41 980
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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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R1,794
Discovery Miles 17 940
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Ships in 10 - 15 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.
In this edited collection, Peter Lawler presents a lucid and
comprehensive introduction to a diverse set of political issues
according to Tocqueville. Democracy and Its Friendly Critics
addresses a variety of modern political and social concerns, such
as the moral dimension of democracy, the theoretical challenges to
democracy in our time, the religious dimension of liberty, and the
meaning of work in contemporary American Life. Taking innovative
and unexpected approaches toward familiar topics, the essays
present engaging insights into a democratic society, and the
contributors include some of today's leading figures in political
philosophy. No other collection on Tocqueville addresses
contemporary American political issues in such a direct and
accessible fashion, making this book a valuable resource for the
study of political theory in America.
In this edited collection, Peter Lawler presents a lucid and
comprehensive introduction to a diverse set of political issues
according to Tocqueville. Democracy and Its Friendly Critics
addresses a variety of modern political and social concerns, such
as the moral dimension of democracy, the theoretical challenges to
democracy in our time, the religious dimension of liberty, and the
meaning of work in contemporary American Life. Taking innovative
and unexpected approaches toward familiar topics, the essays
present engaging insights into a democratic society, and the
contributors include some of today's leading figures in political
philosophy. No other collection on Tocqueville addresses
contemporary American political issues in such a direct and
accessible fashion, making this book a valuable resource for the
study of political theory in America.
This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the
most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy,
literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine
Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary
consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the
relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason
and revelation, classical philosophy and Christianity, modernity
and postmodernity, repentance and self-limitation, and philosophy
and politics. These tensions are explored through the works of such
eminent thinkers as Aristotle, Augustine, and Tocqueville, but the
contributors engage a wide variety of texts from popular culture,
American literature Flannery O'Connor receives notable attention
and social theory to create a remarkably comprehensive, if far from
harmonious, introduction to political philosphy today."
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