Patrick Deneen's Democratic Faith
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12369239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael L Andrews (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 201-203 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-7097 • E-ISSN: 1930-5478 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3200/ppsc.36.4.201-203 |
| OpenAlex | W2071670526 |
| Language | EN |
Is democratic government something more than just one type of political arrangement among many other possibilities? Is it the appropriate home for yearnings once satisfied by religion? Patrick Deneen raises these questions in his book Democratic Faith. In this article, Michael L. Andrews reflects on the modern tendency to project spiritual longings into the realm of politics, and the modern attraction to political ideologies that promise to at once liberate humanity and to create new political communities to overcome the phenomenon of alienation
Aesthetics · Alienation · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Faith · Humanity · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
| Highly cited | No |
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