America the Virtuous : The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire

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ISBN: 9780765802194 | 0765802198
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/30/2003

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Urged on by politicians and intellectuals, the president of the United States has committed America to a quest for empire. Ryn sees this drive for a virtuous empire as the culmination of an ideological movement and describes the drive for empire as part of a larger ideological whole, one both expressing and aggravating a crisis of democracy.

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Acknowledgements	ix
Preface	xi
Author's Note	xiii
Prologue: War without End	1	(14)
1. The Crisis of Western Civilization and the Rise of Jacobinism	15	(10)
2. The New Jacobinism	25	(18)
3. Creative Traditionalism or Radicalism?	43	(6)
4. Democracy: Plebiscitary or Constitutional?	49	(6)
5. Contrasting Forms of Morality and Society	55	(4)
6. Aristocratic and Anti-Aristocratic Democracy	59	(12)
7. The Father of Democratism	71	(6)
8. Love of One's Own and Love of the Common	77	(6)
9. Moral Universality: A Philosophical Interlude	83	(6)
10. Pluralistic Political Morality	89	(8)
11. Democracy in Peril	97	(14)
12. The New Jacobins and American Democracy	111	(12)
13. Democracy for the World	123	(22)
14. Jacobin Capitalism	145	(10)
15. Equality	155	(10)
16. A Center that Cannot Hold	165	(12)
17. Responsible Nationhood	177	(12)
18. Needed: A New Moral Realism	189	(24)
Index	213

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America the Virtuous : The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire

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