Democratic Faith / / Patrick Deneen.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Forum Books ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (388 p.) :; 2 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION: Dynamics of Democratic Faith
- PART ONE. Democratic Faith and Its Discontents
- CHAPTER 1. Faith in Man
- CHAPTER 2. Democratic Transformation
- CHAPTER 3. Democracy as Trial: Toward a Critique of Democratic Faith
- PART TWO. Voices of the Democratic Faithful
- CHAPTER 4. Protagoras Unbound: The Democratic Mythology of Protagoras's "Great Speech"
- CHAPTER 5. Civil Religion and the Democratic Faith of Rousseau
- CHAPTER 6. American Faith: The Translation of Religious Faith to Democratic Faith
- PART THREE. Friendly Critics of Democratic Faith
- CHAPTER 7. "A Pattern Laid Up in Heaven": Plato's Democratic Ideal
- CHAPTER 8. The Only Permanent State: Tocqueville on Religion and Democracy
- CHAPTER 9. Hope in America: The Chastened Faith of Reinhold Niebuhr and Christopher Lasch
- CONCLUSION: A Model of Democratic Charity
- NOTES
- INDEX
- NEW FORUM BOOKS