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

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137093417
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 05/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 228
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Ralph Ancil, Geneva College, USA Jeremy Beer, American Philanthropic, USA Gregory S. Butler, New Mexico State University, USA Michael P. Federici, Mercyhurst University, USA Richard M. Gamble, Hillsdale College, USA Justin Garrison, Catholic University of America, USA Gary L. Gregg II, University of Louisville, USA Darryl Hart, Hillsdale College, USA Robert C. Koons, University of Texas at Austin, USA Jeffrey Polet, Hope College, USA Brian Patrick Mitchell, USA Mark T. Mitchell, Patrick Henry College, USA Claes G. Ryn, Catholic University of America, USA

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
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