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Democracy and Its Friendly Critics - Tocqueville and Political Life Today

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor of Government at Berry College. Klappentext Democracy and Its Friendly Critics addresses a variety of modern political and social concerns, such as the moral dimension of democracy, the theoretical challenges to democracy in our time, the religious dimension of liberty, and the meaning of work in contemporary American l... Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today 2 National Character and National Soul 3 Liberty, Equality, Nobility: Kolnai, Tocqueville, and the Moral Foundation of Democracy 4 Tocqueville on Pantheism, Materialism, and Catholicism 5 The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot 6 Alexis de Tocqueville on the Incommensurability of America's Founding Principles 7 Citizenship as a Vocation 8 Compassionate Conservatism and Biotechnology: Some Tocquevillian Reflections 9 Religion and the Limits of Liberal Pluralism 10 Profiles in American Thomism 11 Christian Love and the Foundations of American Politics: Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln 12 Democracy's Darkside? Robert Kraynak's Catholic Reflections on the Soul in the Liberal Democratic Dispensation 13 Machiavelli Meets the Mob: Palminteri'sA Bronx Tale

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Authors Peter Lawler, Peter A. Lawler, Peter Augustine Lawler
Assisted by Peter Lawler (Editor), Peter Augustine Lawler (Editor)
Publisher Lexington Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 11.08.2004
 
EAN 9780739107614
ISBN 978-0-7391-0761-4
No. of pages 204
Series Applications of Political Theory
Applications of Political Theo
Applications of Political Theory
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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