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The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory.... read more
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- John Dewey: Add a description of this character.
- Rousseau
- Tocqueville
- Lincoln
- Machiavelli
- Havel
- Christopher Lasch
- Zeus
- Arendt
- Locke
- Meno
- Walt Whitman
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- William James
- Emerson
- Socrates
- Lummis
- Adam
- Hamilton
- Bacon
- Richard Rorty
- Williams
- Mirsky
- Durkheim
- Strauss
- Bellah
- Eisenach
- Gutmann
- Rawls
- Pico
- Euben
- Shepard
- Thompson
- Augustine
- Benjamin Barber
- Wollheim
- Wolin
- Brickner
- Cynthia Farrar
- Jefferson
- Prometheus
- George W. Bush
- Protagoras
- Aristotle
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First Sentence edit
To THE EARS OF MANY, linking the words "faith" and "democracy" is strange, uncanny, bizarre, objectionable, and, for some, even sacrilegious.
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- Patrick J. Deneen (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 321.801
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