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Author:   Bruce Fleming (US Naval Academy, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9781032660059

ISBN 10:   1032660058
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   12 December 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Acknowledgments 1. Democracy as Oddball 2. Philadelphia 1776 and Beyond 3. Democracy Is a Game with Rules, and Some People Play It Better Than Others 4. Absolute and Relative Are Yoked Together 5. The Arc of History Does Not Bend toward Democracy 6. Rights and Freedom in Democracy 7. Freedom Is Linked to Goals 8. The Dangers of Overselling Democracy 9. Democracy’s Two Elements at War 10. Democracy Isn’t Supposed to Be Sexy 11. Absolutist Actions vs. Relativistic Actors 12. Democracy Is Constructed, Like a Building 13. Do People Even Want to Be Free? 14. Laws, Freedom, and Democracy 15. Belief within Democracy 16. Democracy Doesn’t Demand the Provable 17. Reason vs. Passion in Everyday Life 18. Works Cited

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Bruce Fleming is Professor of English at the US Naval Academy and is the author most recently of The End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia, What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now?, The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor, Masculinity from the Inside, and Saving Our Service Academies: My Battle with, and for, the US Naval Academy to Make Thinking Officers.

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