The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics : The Modest Republic

著者名：Federici, M. (EDT)/Gamble, R. (EDT)/Mitchell, M. (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2013/05/01発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781349343478
• eISBN：9781137093417

Description

By identifying and illustrating aspects of American culture that are out of sync with the modest republicanism that gave rise to the United States in the late eighteenth century, the contributors to this volume expose the vulgarity and excess of American culture.

Table of Contents

1. Messianic Hoax and the Quest for Empire; R.M.Gamble 2. Journalism; R.Dreher 3. The Architecture of Empire; D.Lee 4. The Politics of Modesty and the Problem of Scale; M.T.Mitchell 5. The Rise of Therapeutic Culture and the End of the Modest Republic; J.Beer 6. Religion and the Modest Republic; D.Hart 7. Popular Culture; A.Esolen 8. The Immodesty of American Empire: A Constitutionalist Perspective on Neo-Jacobin Universalism; C.G.Ryn 9. Can there be a Modest Presidency in a Modest Republic?; G.L.Gregg 10. Ethical Center of Modest Republicanism; M.P.Federici 11. A Humane Economy; R.Ancil 12. Debt and the Loss of Moderation; B.P.Mitchell 13. Higher Education; R.Koons 14. Education; J.Polet