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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
c2005.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
New forum books. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3146953x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
