A passion for democracy
American essays
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Author
Publication
1998 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
73,250 words, Guess
Page Count
293 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL703390M
- ISBN-100691057664
- OCLC Control Number38126036
- OCLC Control Numberpassionfordemocr00barb
- Library of Congress Control Number97052582
and 2 more
- LibraryThing15735
- Goodreads4121694
Classifications
- DDC320.473
- LCCJK1726 .B27 1998
Description
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.
First Sentence
IN ITS ERRATIC, often glorious, political history since 1688, liberalism has forged many alliances: with rationalism and with empiricism, with revolution and with bureaucracy, with enlightenment and with romanticism, and with laissez-faire economics and with nationalism.
Excerpt
IN ITS ERRATIC, often glorious, political history since 1688, liberalism has forged many alliances: with rationalism and with empiricism, with revolution and with bureaucracy, with enlightenment and with romanticism, and with laissez-faire economics and with nationalism.
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