A Passion for Democracy

by Barber, Benjamin R.

• ISBN13: 9780691057668
• ISBN10: 0691057664
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

"If I were to put together a short list of a dozen scholars who might. . .contribute to the rhetoric and thought of a presidency, I would put Ben Barber on the list."--William Galston, former deputy assistant for domestic policy to Bill Clinton (quoted in "The Chronicle of Higher Education"

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Acknowledgments	xi
PART I. AMERICAN THEORY: DEMOCRACY, LIBERALISM, AND RIGHTS	3	(92)
Chapter 1. Liberal Democracy and the Costs of Consent	3	(16)
Chapter 2. Foundationalism and Democracy	19	(12)
Chapter 3. Why Democracy Must Be Liberal: An Epitaph for Marxism	31	(10)
Chapter 4. The Compromised Republic: Public Purposelessness in America	41	(19)
Chapter 5. The Rights of We the People Are All the Rights There Are	60	(19)
Chapter 6. Have Rights Gone Wrong? The Reconstruction of Rights	79	(16)
PART II. AMERICAN PRACTICE: LEADERSHIP, CITIZENSHIP, AND CENSORSHIP	95	(66)
Chapter 7. Neither Leaders nor Followers: Citizenship under Strong Democracy	95	(16)
Chapter 8. Command Performance: Where Have All the Leaders Gone?	111	(8)
Chapter 9. The Undemocratic Party System: Citizenship in an Elite/Mass Society	119	(15)
Chapter 10. One Nation Indivisible or a Compact of Sovereign States? The Two Faces of Federalism	134	(9)
Chapter 11. The Market as Censor in a World of Consumer Totalism	143	(18)
PART III. EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY: CIVIC EDUCATION, SERVICE, AND CITIZENSHIP	161	(76)
Chapter 12. Thomas Jefferson and the Education of the Citizen	161	(17)
Chapter 13. The Civic Mission of the University	178	(9)
Chapter 14. Service, Citizenship, and Democracy: Civic Duty as an Entailment of Civil Right	187	(16)
Chapter 15. Cultural Conservatism and Democratic Education: Lessons from the Sixties	203	(11)
Chapter 16. America Skips School: Why We Talk So Much about Education and Do So Little	214	(11)
Chapter 17. Education for Democracy	225	(12)
PART IV. DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY: ENDLESS FRONTIER OR END OF DEMOCRACY?	237	(46)
Chapter 18. The Second American Revolution	237	(8)
Chapter 19. Pangloss, Pandora, or Jefferson? Three Scenarios for the Future of Technology and Democracy	245	(13)
Chapter 20. The New Telecommunications Technology: Endless Frontier or the End of Democracy?	258	(25)
Index	283