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The revolt of the elites : and the betrayal of democracy / Christopher Lasch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c1995.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 276 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0393036995
  • 9780393036992
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HN90.P57 L37 1995
Contents:
Introduction : The democratic malaise -- 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 -- 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 abolition of shame -- Philip Rieff and the religion of culture -- The soul of man under secularism.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks HN90.P57L37 1995 1 Available 33710001082556

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.

Introduction : The democratic malaise -- 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 -- 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 abolition of shame -- Philip Rieff and the religion of culture -- The soul of man under secularism.