Virtue and Irony in American Democracy - Revisiting Dewey and Niebuhr

Virtue and Irony in American Democracy: Revisiting Dewey and Niebuhr offers original, accessible democratic-virtue readings of Dewey and Niebuhr, showing implications for political responses to economic inequality on the basis of the virtues they imply.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: We the People of Habit
Chapter 2: Pragmatic Democracy
Chapter 3: Augustinian Democracy
Chapter 4: The Capitalist Moral Agent
Chapter 5: The Irony of Missed Consensus
Conclusion: Contemporary Challenges to Democracy

About the author

Daniel A. Morris is lecturer in the Religion Department at Augustana College.

Summary

Virtue and Irony in American Democracy: Revisiting Dewey and Niebuhr offers original, accessible democratic-virtue readings of Dewey and Niebuhr, showing implications for political responses to economic inequality on the basis of the virtues they imply.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Morris, Daniel A. Morris, Morris Daniel A.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781498500760
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0076-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; USA, Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights