The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age

by Thomas L. Pangle

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With the end of the Cold War, says Thomas L. Pangle, liberal democracy was deprived of its traditional enemy, and forced to re-examine its internal structure and fundamental aims. One result has been the moral-relativist "postmodernism" of mainstream Western intellectuals. Focusing on Lyotard, Vattimo, and Rorty, The Ennobling of Democracy offers a searching critique of postmodernism and its implications for political life and thought. Pangle carefully...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:080184262X

ISBN13:9780801842627

Release Date:November 1991

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Constitutions Democracy Ideologies & Doctrines Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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