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A Passion for Democracy : American Essays /
"Benjamin Barber is one of America's preeminent political theorists. He has been a significant voice in the continuing debate about the nature and role of democracy in the contemporary world. A Passion for Democracy collects twenty of his most important writings on American democracy. In t...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2000.
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| Edición: | 1st paperback. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A Passion for Democracy : |b American Essays / |c Benjamin R. Barber. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Part 1. AMERICAN THEORY: DEMOCRACY, LIBERALISM AND RIGHTS: Liberal democracy and the costs of consent ; Foundationalism and democracy ; Why democracy must be liberal: an epitaph for Marxism ; The compromised Republic: public purposelessness in America ; The rights of we the people are all the rights there are ; Have rights gone wrong? The reconstruction of rights -- PART 2. AMERICAN PRACTICE: LEADERSHIP, CITIZENSHIP, AND CENSORSHIP: leither leaders nor followers: citizenship under strong democracy ; Command performance: where have all the leaders gone? ; The undemocratic party system: citizenship in an elite/mass society ; One nation indivisible or a compact of sovereign states? The two faces of Federalism ; The market as censor in a world of consumer totalism -- PART 3. EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY: CIVIC EDUCATION, SERVICE, AND CITIZANSHIP: Thomas Jefferson and the education of the citizen ; The civic mission of the university ; Service, citizenship, and democracy: Civic duty as an entailment of civil right ; Cultural conservatism and democratic education: Lessons from the Sixties ; America skips school: why we talk so much about education and do so little ; Education for democracy -- Part 4. DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY: ENDLESS FRONTIER OR END OF DEMOCRACY?: The Second American Revolution ; Pangloss, Pandora, or Jefferson? Three scenarios for the future of technology and democracy ; The new telecommunications technology: endless frontier or the end of democracy? | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "Benjamin Barber is one of America's preeminent political theorists. He has been a significant voice in the continuing debate about the nature and role of democracy in the contemporary world. A Passion for Democracy collects twenty of his most important writings on American democracy. In these pieces, Barber argues for participatory democracy without dependence on abstract metaphysical foundations, and he stresses the relationship between democracy and civil society, civic education, and culture."--Jacket. | |
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