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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?