高潔なるアメリカ:民主主義の危機と帝国の希求<br>America the Virtuous : The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire

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高潔なるアメリカ:民主主義の危機と帝国の希求
America the Virtuous : The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 236 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780765802194
  • DDC分類 320.973

基本説明

Explains the ideological underpinnings of the quest for empire and subjects it to in-depth analysis and criticism.

Full Description

Urged on by a powerful ideological and political movement, George W. Bush committed the United States to a quest for empire. American values and principles were universal, he asserted, and should guide the transformation of the world. Claes Ryn sees this drive for virtuous empire as the triumph of forces that in the last several decades acquired decisive influence in both the American parties, the foreign policy establishment, and the media.

Public intellectuals like William Bennett, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Michael Novak, Richard Perle, and Norman Podhoretz argued that the United States was an exceptional nation and should bring "democracy," "freedom," and "capitalism" to countries not yet enjoying them. Ryn finds the ideology of American empire strongly reminiscent of the French Jacobinism of the eighteenth century. He describes the drive for armed world hegemony as part of a larger ideological whole that both expresses and aggravates a crisis of democracy and, more generally, of American and Western civilization.

America the Virtuous sees the new Jacobinism as symptomatic of America shedding an older sense of the need for restraints on power. Checks provided by the US Constitution have been greatly weakened with the erosion of traditional moral and other culture.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Author's Note
Prologue: War without End
1. The Crisis of Western Civilization and the Rise of Jacobinism
2. The New Jacobinism
3. Creative Traditionalism or Radicalism?
4. Democracy: Plebiscitary or Constitutional?
5. Contrasting Forms of Morality and Society
6. Aristocratic and Anti-Aristocratic Democracy
7. The Father of Democratism
8. Love of One's Own and Love of the Common
9. Moral Universality: A Philosophical Interlude
10. Pluralistic Political Morality
11. Democracy in Peril
12. The New Jacobins and American Democracy
13. Democracy for the World
14. Jacobin Capitalism
15. Equality
16. A Center that Cannot Hold
17. Responsible Nationhood
18. Needed: A New Moral Realism
Index