ISBN:
9780230340770
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (237 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics : The Modest Republic
DDC:
306.20973
Keywords:
Political sociology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Corporations that are too big to fail, consumption inspired by excessive greed, government budgets that routinely exceed the limits of revenues, and foreign policy that meddles in the affairs of other nations insisting that the world imitate American ideals and ways of life are just a few of the examples of American immodesty discussed in the book. By identifying and illustrating aspects of American culture that are out of sync with the modest republicanism that gave rise to the United States in the late eighteenth century, the contributors to this volume expose the vulgarity and excess of Ame
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: From Republic to Empire; Part I America in the World; 1. The Messianic Hoax and the Quest for Empire; 2. The Immodesty of American Empire: A Constitutionalist Perspective on Neo-Jacobin Universalism; Part II Political and Economic Immodesty; 3. Judicial Power and Modest Republicanism; 4. Presidential Power in a Modest Republic; 5. The Land of Limitless Possibilities: Ronald Reagan, Progress, Technology, and the Modest Republic; 6. Banking and the Modest Republic; 7. The Ideology of Growth and Self-Interest
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III Immodesty in American Culture8. Human Scale and the Modest Republic; 9. The Therapeutic State and the Forgotten Work of Culture; 10. Hope in the Midst of Ruin: The Essential Modesty of Bruce Springsteen's Urban Gothic; 11. The Modest College and the Imperial University; 12. Education as a Social Problem: Why It Can't Cure Our Ills; 13. Immodest Faith for a Modest Republic; Conclusion; Notes on Contributors; Index
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