Democratic faith
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
c2005.
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| Edition: | Course Book |
| Series: | New forum books.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426429206719 |
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 .
