Revolt of the Elites And the Betrayal of Democracy

Name: Revolt of the Elites And the Betrayal of Democracy
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ISBN: 9780393313710

ISBN-10: 0393313719

ISBN-13: 9780393313710

Edition: 1995

Authors: Christopher Lasch, Christopher Lasch

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Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.54" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Democratic Malaise



The Intensification of Social Divisions



The Revolt of the Elites



Opportunity in the Promised Land: Social Mobility or the Democratization of Competence?



Does Democracy Deserve to Survive?



Communitarianism or Populism? The Ethic of Compassion and the Ethic of Respect



Democratic Discourse in Decline



Conversation and the Civic Arts



Racial Politics in New York: The Attack on Common Standards



The Common Schools: Horace Mann and the Assault on Imagination



The Lost Art of Argument



Academic Pseudo-radicalism: The Charade of "Subversion"



The Dark Night of the Soul



The Abolition of Shame



Philip Rieff and the Religion of Culture



The Soul of Man under Secularism


Bibliography


Index