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Challenge to Democracy |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Paul Gottfried |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 2,339 Words, 15,386 Characters |
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DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL
Jean Bethke Elshtain
New York: Basic Books, 1995
153 pp., $20.00
In her latest book, a reworking of the 1993 Massey lectures, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Ethics at the University of Chicago, gives her views on the problems facing modern democracy. Her statement of these views is important, given Bethke Elshtain's professional rank and the celebrated journalists and academics who have blurbed her volume. The description of her by Mary Ann Glendon of the Harvard Law School as "one of America's leading public intellectuals" must carry weight. We may infer that Bethke Elshtain's ideas are widely seen, and not only by Michael Walzer of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, as those of a "truly independent, deep...
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...cratic impulse, though not one that may please either Bethke Elshtain or Dionne. Democracy is about more than procedure or being civic minded, according to the prescriptions of a slightly left-of-center, moderate feminist professor. In the end, democracy is about who gets to rule, and in the culturally divided society in which we now find ourselves, that issue will not be decided by bromides.
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