Individuality And Mass Democracy

Author : Alex Zakaras
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195384687
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Individuality and Mass Democracy written by Alex Zakaras and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Zakaras argues that we must develop an ideal of citizenship suitable for mass society. To do so, he turns to a pair of 19th-century philosophers - John Stuart Mill and Ralph Waldo Emerson - who were among the first to confront the specific challenge of making mass democracy work.

Author : Alex Zakaras
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691226326
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roots of American Individualism written by Alex Zakaras and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s bitterly divided politics Individualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike promising to expand personal freedom and defend individual rights against unwanted intrusion, be it from big government, big corporations, or intolerant majorities. The Roots of American Individualism traces the origins of individualist ideas to the turbulent political controversies of the Jacksonian era (1820–1850) and explores their enduring influence on American politics and culture. Alex Zakaras plunges readers into the spirited and rancorous political debates of Andrew Jackson’s America, drawing on the stump speeches, newspaper editorials, magazine articles, and sermons that captivated mass audiences and shaped partisan identities. He shows how these debates popularized three powerful myths that celebrated the young nation as an exceptional land of liberty: the myth of the independent proprietor, the myth of the rights-bearer, and the myth of the self-made man. The Roots of American Individualism reveals how generations of politicians, pundits, and provocateurs have invoked these myths for competing political purposes. Time and again, the myths were used to determine who would enjoy equal rights and freedoms and who would not. They also conjured up heavily idealized, apolitical visions of social harmony and boundless opportunity, typically centered on the free market, that have distorted American political thought to this day.

Author : Edward Hallett Carr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "From Individualism to Mass Democracy" written by Edward Hallett Carr and published by . This book was released on 195? with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephanie M. Walls
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623560640
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Individualism in the United States written by Stephanie M. Walls and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive look at the foundations, and current state of individualism in the US, including an assessment of the implications for American democracy and citizenship"--

Author : Alan Gilbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521387095
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Individuality written by Alan Gilbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-08-31 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parallels between scientific and moral realism are drawn to reinterpret the history and internal logic of democratic theory and present a powerful argument in favor of the objectivity of democratic individuality.

Author : George Kateb
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501743910
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inner Ocean written by George Kateb and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " What is the meaning of individualism in a modern democracy? In this rich and penetrating book, a major political theorist examines the nature of individualism—the concept of self it implies, the ethic it sustains, the personal connectedness it supports, and the politics it requires—and provides a challenging answer. George Kateb argues that democracy is founded on respect for the dignity of individuals as individuals, and that this respect transforms all human relations. Democratic individuality, in his view, is a way in which individuals whose rights are protected may dare to live their private lives and to conceive their roles as citizens. Kateb employs the concept of individuality not only to criticize communitarianism and to define the limits of the role of the state, but also to approach global concerns involving our relation to nature. The ten essays of this book explore democratic individuality in light of such topics as the power of political institutions to accommodate and express different values, the moral distinctiveness of representative democracy, the implications of the liberal social contract, and the possibility of human extinction. Eloquently addressing issues at the heart of democratic life, The Inner Ocean will be of vital interest to scholars and students in American studies, political theory, and moral philosophy.

Author : Charles William Eliot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.C4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conflict Between Individualism and Collectivism in a Democracy written by Charles William Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert J. Gans
Publisher : New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle American Individualism written by Herbert J. Gans and published by New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gans grapples with today's most pressing problem--the need for a sense of community in America, he provides a vivid portrait of the lifestyle and values of America's pink, white and blue collar workers--and the implications for our democratic society.

Author : Carleton Kemp Allen
Publisher : London, Oxford U. P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and the Individual written by Carleton Kemp Allen and published by London, Oxford U. P. This book was released on 1943 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph H. Carens
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791498484
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Possessive Individualism written by Joseph H. Carens and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-09-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. B. Macpherson was one of the leading political theorists in North America and perhaps the most influential voice on the left for a view of liberal democracy that was simultaneously sympathetic to its aspirations and critical of its achievements. His work provides the contributors to this volume with a common starting point from which to reflect upon the possibilities for critical perspectives on liberal democracy in light of the demise of its Marxist rival. The volume as a whole addresses the following questions: What (if anything) remains valid in previous left critiques of liberal democracy (including Marxist critiques)? And what new critical and constructive alternatives can the left offer to challenge the status quo? The contributors to this volume, from both the Anglo-American and Continental traditions, include Joseph Carens, William Connolly, Virginia Held, John Keane, Ernesto Laclau, William Leiss, Jane Mansbridge, Louise Marcil-Lacoste, Mihailo Markovic, Chantal Mouffe, Nancy Rosenblum, and James Tully.