1st Edition
America the Virtuous The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire
Edited By Claes G. Ryn
Copyright 2003
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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Urged on by a powerful ideological and political movement, George W. Bush committed the United States to a quest for empire. American values and principles were universal, he asserted, and should guide the transformation of the world. Claes Ryn sees this drive for virtuous empire as the triumph of forces that in the last several decades acquired decisive influence in both the American parties,... Read more
AcknowledgementsPrefaceAuthor's NotePrologue: War without End1. The Crisis of Western Civilization and the Rise of Jacobinism2. The New Jacobinism3. Creative Traditionalism or Radicalism?4. Democracy: Plebiscitary or Constitutional?5. Contrasting Forms of Morality and Society6. Aristocratic and Anti-Aristocratic Democracy7. The Father of Democratism8. Love of One's Own and Love of the Common9. Moral Universality: A Philosophical Interlude10. Pluralistic Political Morality11. Democracy in Peril12. The New Jacobins and American Democracy13. Democracy for the World14. Jacobin Capitalism15. Equality16. A Center that Cannot Hold17. Responsible Nationhood18. Needed: A New Moral RealismIndex
Biography
Claes G. Ryn
