Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!: Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American PoliticsNYU Press, 2005 - Всего страниц: 228 The level of vitriol in American politics has been rising with no end in sight. Terms like “evildoer,” “war on terror,” and “axis of evil” have become commonplace in our discussion of international politics. What ever happened to civil debate? Where has all this moralizing come from? And what harm has this new level of attack caused to democracy in America? |
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... puritanism, prevents mature acceptance of this fallen world's naughtiness. To which, this riposte is apposite: Europe's political sensibility, sometimes called “realism” and accurately called the de-moralization of politics (politics in ...
... puritan positions regarding sexuality. But the intrusiveness into privacy often blamed on such puritanical jurists as Kenneth Starr cannot be attributed solely to this heritage. At a deeper level, it lies in the urge to see all of ...
... puritan model.6 Contrary to popular misconceptions, however, the puritan religious impulse actually contains the seeds of two opposite answers to the “moral bottom line: Who do we blame for trouble, the sinner or the society?” Rather ...
... Puritan covenants held the entire community responsible. In time, the two halves of that equation—the individual and ... puritanism's emphasis on personal godliness and an ideal of community that took responsibility for the godliness of ...
... Puritans groped back to the tried and true— they found terrible new enemies to define them. The saints constructed their 'us' against a vivid series of immoral 'them': heretics, Indians, witches. Each enemy clarified the Puritan ...
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Americas Moral Paradox | 44 |
4 The Deep Divide and the Most Vulnerable | 64 |
Part II
Demonization and Wars Seeking the Enemy | 85 |
6 Terror Evil and the New Cold War | 102 |
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Terror Wars and Culture Wars | 129 |
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Preserve the Environment Become an Environmental Sport | 149 |
Conclusion | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Index | 221 |
About the Authors | 228 |
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