Bruce Fleming

Democracy's Achilles Heel (eBook, ePUB)

The Rocky Marriage of Relative and Absolute

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A defence of democratic politics, this book argues that democracy comprises a structure based on two incompatible world-views: one relativist and liberal, the other absolutist and conservative - the combination of which is at once essential for its success, yet also that which threatens its survival.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003830320
• Artikelnr.: 69249903

Autorenporträt

Bruce Fleming is Professor of English at the US Naval Academy and is the author most recently of The End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia, What Does 'Art' Mean Now?, The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor, Masculinity from the Inside, and Saving Our Service Academies: My Battle with, and for, the US Naval Academy to Make Thinking Officers.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Democracy as Oddball
2. Philadelphia 1776 and Beyond
3. Democracy Is a Game with Rules, and Some People Play It Better Than
Others
4. Absolute and Relative Are Yoked Together
5. The Arc of History Does Not Bend toward Democracy
6. Rights and Freedom in Democracy
7. Freedom Is Linked to Goals
8. The Dangers of Overselling Democracy
9. Democracy's Two Elements at War
10. Democracy Isn't Supposed to Be Sexy
11. Absolutist Actions vs. Relativistic Actors
12. Democracy Is Constructed, Like a Building
13. Do People Even Want to Be Free?
14. Laws, Freedom, and Democracy
15. Belief within Democracy
16. Democracy Doesn't Demand the Provable
17. Reason vs. Passion in Everyday Life
18. Works Cited