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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461455603321

Autore

Morris Daniel A.

Titolo

Virtue and irony in American democracy : revisiting Dewey and Niebuhr / / Daniel A. Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0075-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

320.97301

Soggetti

Democracy - United States

Democracy - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

We the people of habit -- Pragmatic democracy -- Augustinian democracy -- The capitalist moral agent -- The irony of missed consensus.

Sommario/riassunto

Virtue and Irony in American Democracy: Revisiting Dewey and Niebuhr offers original, accessible democratic-virtue readings of Dewey and Niebuhr, showing implications for political responses to economic inequality on the basis of the virtues they imply.