Democracy and solidarity on the cultural roots of America's political crisis

Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions--most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality that, tragically, has seldom been realized in practice. While these contradictions have caused dissent and even violence, there was always an underlying a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hunter, James Davison, 1955- author (author)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press [2024]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Liberal Democracy at the End of the American Century
  • Part I, Introduction. The Cultural Crisis of Liberal Democracy
  • Part II E pluribus unum? The Boundaries of Solidarity ; The Sources of Solidarity
  • Part III "Working through" America's hybrid-enlightenment. America's Hybrid-Enlightenment ; Mythos and Nation-Building ; The Unmaking of the Christian Republic ; A Secular Turn ; A Fragile Humanism ; The Evolving Culture War ; Exhaustion
  • Part IV Late-stage democracy. A Great Unraveling ; Nihilism and Its Cultural Logics ; The Authoritarian Impulse ; Whither Liberal Democracy?
  • Coda: Imaginaries of Hope.