The revolt of the elites : and the betrayal of democracy / Christopher Lasch.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c1995.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 276 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0393036995
- 9780393036992
- HN90.P57 L37 1995
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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.