Deneen Democratic Faith

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2689-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 36, 388 Seiten

Reihe: New Forum Books

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Deneen, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
PREFACE:WORSHIPING DEMOCRACY:THE PANTÉON AND THE GODDESS OF DEMOCRACY xiii
INTRODUCTION Dynamics of Democratic Faith 1

PART I: DEMOCRATIC FAITH AND ITS DISCONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: Faith in Man 15
CHAPTER 2: Democratic Transformation 50
CHAPTER 3: Democracy as Trial: Toward a Critique of Democratic Faith 84

PART II: VOICES OF THE DEMOCRATIC FAITHFUL

CHAPTER 4: Protagoras Unbound: The Democratic Mythology of Protagoras's "Great Speech" 119
CHAPTER 5: Civil Religion and the Democratic Faith of Rousseau 140
CHAPTER 6: American Faith: The Translation of Religious Faith to Democratic Faith 166

PART III: FRIENDLY CRITICS OF DEMOCRATIC FAITH

CHAPTER 7: "A Pattern Laid Up in Heaven": Plato's Democratic Ideal 191
CHAPTER 8: The Only Permanent State: Tocqueville on Religion and Democracy 214
CHAPTER 9: Hope in America: The Chastened Faith of Reinhold Niebuhr and Christopher Lasch 239

CONCLUSION: A Model of Democratic Charity 270
NOTES 289
INDEX 361

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Deneen is Associate Professor of Government and the inaugural Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair of Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University. He has also taught at Princeton University. He is the author of The Odyssey of Political Theory and a number of articles on ancient and American political thought.