A passion for democracy
Subtitle: American essays
By: Benjamin R. Barber.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Democracy -- United States.; Democracy.
Description: Benjamin Barber is one of America's preeminent political theorists. He has been a significant voice in the continuing debate about the nature and role of democracy in the contemporary world. A Passion for Democracy collects twenty of his most important writings on American democracy. In these pieces, Barber argues for participatory democracy without dependence on abstract metaphysical foundations, and he stresses the relationship between democracy and civil society, civic education, and culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: pagenum: ix
title: Preface; pagenum: xi
title: Acknowledgments; label: I
title: American Theory: Democracy, Liberalism, and Rights; title: Liberal Democracy and the Costs of Consent
pagenum: 3
label: 1; title: Foundationalism and Democracy
pagenum: 19
label: 2; title: Why Democracy Must Be Liberal: An Epitaph for Marxism
pagenum: 31
label: 3; title: The Compromised Republic: Public Purposelessness in America
pagenum: 41
label: 4; title: The Rights of We the People Are All the Rights There Are
pagenum: 60
label: 5; title: Have Rights Gone Wrong?  The Reconstruction of Rights
pagenum: 79
label: 6; label: II
title: American Practice:  Leadership, Citizenship, and Censorship; title: Neither Leaders nor Followers:  Citizenship under Strong Democracy
pagenum: 95
label: 7; title: Command Performance:  Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
pagenum: 111
label: 8; title: The Undemocratic Party System:  Citizenship in an Elite/Mass Society
pagenum: 119
label: 9; title: One Nation Indivisible or a Compact of Sovereign States?  The Two Faces of Federalism
pagenum: 134
label: 10; title: The Market as Censor in a World of Consumer Totalism
pagenum: 143
label: 11; label: III
title: Education for Democracy: Civic Education, Service, and Citizenship; title: Thomas Jefferson and the Education of the Citizen
pagenum: 161
label: 12; title: The Civic Mission of the University
pagenum: 178
label: 13; title: Service, Citizenship, and Democracy:  Civic Duty as an Entailment of Civil Right
pagenum: 187
label: 14; title: Cultural Conservatism and Democratic Education: Lessons from the Sixties
pagenum: 203
label: 15; title: America Skips School:  Why We Talk So Much about Education and Do So Little
pagenum: 214
label: 16; title: Education for Democracy
pagenum: 225
label: 17; label: IV
title: Democracy and Technology:  Endless Frontier or End of Democracy?; title: The Second American Revolution
pagenum: 237
label: 18; title: Pangloss, Pandora, or Jefferson?  Three Scenarios for the Future of Technology and Democracy
pagenum: 245
label: 19; title: The New Telecommunications Technology:  Endless Frontier or the End of Democracy?
pagenum: 258
label: 20; pagenum: 283
title: Index