LEADER 05236oam 22007934a 450 001 9910485607903321 005 20231019231530.0 010 $a0-7006-3103-8 035 $a(CKB)5600000000000606 035 $a(OCoLC)1256802109 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse95547 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88511 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7297893 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7297893 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000000606 100 $a20100414d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era$fRalph Ketcham 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cUniversity Press of Kansas$d2004 210 1$aLawrence, Kan. :$cUniversity Press of Kansas,$d2004. 210 4$dİ2004. 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource viii, 302 pages) 311 $a0-7006-1334-X 327 $aProspects for government in 1989 -- Aristotelian and Confucian insights -- Tensions of Citizenship: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The first era of modern thought, ca. 1600-1750 -- The United States and first modernity democracy -- The second modernity: from Bentham to Dewey -- Liberal democracy in the twentieth century -- Second modernity thought in Japan and China -- An Asian third modernity -- Postmodernism and a fourth modernity democracy -- Comparing rationales for democracy -- The idea of democracy in the third millennium. 330 $aAlthough the last half of the twentieth century has been called the Age of Democracy, the twentyfirst has already demonstrated the fragility of its apparent triumph as the dominant form of government throughout the world.Reassessing the fate of democracy for our time, distinguished political theorist Ralph Ketcham traces the evolution of this idea over the course of four hundred years. He traces democracy's bumpy ride in a book that is both an exercise in the history of ideas and an explication of democratic theory. Ketcham examines the rationales for democratic government, identifies the fault lines that separate democracy from good government, and suggests ways to strengthen it in order to meet future challenges. Drawing on an encyclopedic command of history and politics, he examines the rationales that have been offered for democratic government over the course of four manifestations of modernity that he identifies in the Western and East Asian world since 1600.Ketcham first considers the fundamental axioms established by theorists of the Enlightenment?Bacon, Locke, Jefferson?and reflected in America's founding, then moves on to the mostly postDarwinian critiques by Bentham, Veblen, Dewey, and others that produced theories of the liberal corporate state. He explains latenineteenthcentury Asian responses to democracy as the third manifestation, grounded in Confucian respect for communal and hierarchical norms, followed by latetwentiethcentury postmodernist thought that views democratic states as oppressive and seeks to empower marginalized groups.Ketcham critiques the first, second, and fourth modernity rationales for democracy and suggests that the Asian approach may represent a reconciliation of ancient wisdom and modern science better suited to today's world. He advocates a reorientation of democracy that deemphasizes group or identity politics and restores the wholeness of the civic community, proposing a return to the Jeffersonian universalism?that which informed the founding of the United Statesif democracy is to flourish in a fifth manifestation.The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era is an erudite, interdisciplinary work of great breadth and complexity that looks to the past in order to reframe the future. With its global overview and comparative insights, it will stimulate discussion of how democracy can survive?and thrive?in the coming era. 606 $aPolitisches Denken$2swd 606 $aDemokratie$2swd 606 $aDemocratie$2gtt 606 $aPolitical science$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01069781 606 $aDemocracy$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00890077 606 $aScience politique 606 $aDemocratie$zAsie du Sud-Est 606 $aDemocratie$zE?tats-Unis 606 $aDemocratie 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aDemocracy$zEast Asia 606 $aDemocracy$zUnited States 606 $aDemocracy 607 $aOstasien$2swd 607 $aUSA$2swd 607 $aUnited States$2fast 607 $aEast Asia$2fast 610 $aPolitical science & theory 615 00$aPolitisches Denken. 615 00$aDemokratie. 615 10$aDemocratie. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aScience politique. 615 0$aDemocratie 615 0$aDemocratie 615 0$aDemocratie. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aDemocracy. 676 $a321.8 700 $aKetcham$b Ralph$f1927-2017.$01431003 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910485607903321 996 $aThe Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era$93572767 997 $aUNINA