Democracy Reconsidered.

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Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Why a Reconsideration of DemocracyIs Needed, Elizabeth Kaufer Busch; Part One Democratic Relativism: A Crisis of Self-Evidence; 1 Our Crisis of Self-Evidence, Peter Augustine Lawler; 2 The American Context of Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History, James W Ceaser; 3 Gender Feminism in America: A Reconsideration of Nietzsche's Anti-feminism, Elizabeth Kaufer Busch; 4 Anti-Snobs and Anti-Artists, Martha Bayles; Part Two Democracy's Transformation of the Human Character and Soul.

5 Autonomy and Cruelty: Rorty and Montaigne on the Social Bond, Ann Hartle6 Democracy and Philosophy as a Way of Life, Michael Papazian; 7 A Tale of Two Liberals: Rediscovering American Liberalism in Flannery O'Connor's The Barber, David Ramsey; 8 The Rift in the Modem Mind: Tocqueville and Percyon the Rise of the Cartesian Self, Matthew Silman and Brian Smith; Part Three Educating the Democratic Mind and Spirit; 9 Religion and Community in Liberal Education and Liberal Democracy, Joseph M Knippenberg; 10 A Plea to Protect and Promote the Small Liberal Arts College as Such, John Seery.

11 Liberal Education and the Democratic Man, Carl Eric Scott12 Liberal Education: A Friendly Critic of Liberal Democracy, Gayle McKeen; Part Four Democracy in American Politics and Society; 13 Friendly Critics: Tocqueville and Croly on American Political Parties, David Alvis; 14 Bioethics and the American Character, Eric Cohen; with a response by Eric Stone entitled ""Of Revulsionand Joy ""; 15 Progress or Tyranny? The Goodridge Dissents, Paul Seaton; 16 Women against Liberation: Opposing Feminism in a Democratic Age, Jocelyn Jones Evans; Bibliography; Index of Proper Names.

Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine the lessons that novelists, philosophers, and political theorists have for democratic societies as they progress towards postmodern skepticism or even disbelief in the absolute principles that form the foundation of democracies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index.

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