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With the end of the Cold War, says Thomas L. Pangle, liberal democracy was deprived of its traditional enemy, and forced to re-examine its internal structure and fundamental aims. One result has been the moral-relativist "postmodernism" of mainstream Western intellectuals. Focusing on Lyotard, Vattimo, and Rorty, The Ennobling of Democracy offers a searching critique of postmodernism and its implications for political life and thought. Pangle carefully examines the political dimensions of postmodernist teachings, including the rejection of the natural-rights doctrines of the Enlightenment, the discounting of public purposefulness, and the disenchantment with claims of civic virtue and reason. He argues that a serious challenge has been posed to postmodernism by the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe, which have directly experienced heroic political leadership, maintained a prominent place for religion, and preserved a belief in the virtues and duties of citizenship. They consequently make demands on Western thought that postmodernism has been unable to meet. Drawing on the classical republican ideal, Pangle opens the door to a bold new synthesis in political philosophy. He argues that by reappropriating classical civic rationalism-and especially classical philosophy of education-a framework may be established to integrate the most significant findings of modern rationalism into a conception of humanity that encompasses, in an unprecedented way, the entire scope of the human condition.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: Ennobling of Democracy
• Subtitle: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age
• Author: Thomas L. Pangle
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780801846359
• ID: 04708520
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Weight: 312 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 1993

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