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9781498512381 | Lexington Books, April 4, 2016, cover price $85.00
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9781137457714 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 11, 2015, cover price $90.00
This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it grounds and limits our political thought and values. That is the sense in which we do indeed live at history's end. But this end is not a happy one, because the system that we now have does not satisfy tests that we can legitimately put to it. In this situation, it is important to come to new terms with the fact that literature, at least until about 1945, was predominantly hostile to political democracy. Literature's deep-seated conservative, counterdemocratic tendencies, along with its capacity to make important distinctions among political, cultural, and experiential democracies and its capacity to uncover hidden, nonpolitical democracies in everyday life, is now a resource not just for cultural conservatives but for all those who take a critical attitude toward the current political, cultural, and economic structures. Literature, and certain novelists in particular, helps us not so much to imagine social possibilities beyond democracy as to understand how life might be lived both in and outside democratic state capitalism. Drawing on political theory, intellectual history, and the techniques of close reading, Against Democracy offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing democracy, of literary criticism's contribution to that ethos, and of the history of conservatism, as well as innovative interpretations of a range of writers, including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Saul Bellow.
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9780823242542 | Fordham Univ Pr, August 14, 2012, cover price $75.00
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9780823242559 | Fordham Univ Pr, August 14, 2012, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism.
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9780786459766 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 19, 2011, cover price $40.00
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9781443827157 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, March 1, 2011, cover price $58.95
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9781570038174 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, May 15, 2009, cover price $39.95
Product Description: Beyond their status as classic childrenâs stories, Laura Ingalls Wilderâs Little House books play a significant role in American culture that most people cannot begin to appreciate. Millions of children have sampled the books in school; played out the roles of Laura and Mary; or visited Wilder homesites with their parents, who may be fans themselves...read more
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9780826218032 | Univ of Missouri Pr, June 27, 2008, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Fellman shows that Laura Ingalls Wilder's magical Little House series contained a covert political message that made many readers comfortable with the resurgence of conservatism.
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9780826220752 | Reprint edition (Univ of Missouri Pr, February 9, 2016), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Beyond their status as classic childrenâs stories, Laura Ingalls Wilderâs Little House books play a significant role in American culture that most people cannot begin to appreciate.
Product Description: Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism collects those writings of eminent literary scholar and critic George A. Panichas which appeared in the quarterly Modern Age between 1965 and 2005. Panichas became the editor of Modern Age, founded by Russell Kirk in 1957, in 1982...read more
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9781933859446 | Intercollegiate Studies Inst, February 15, 2008, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism collects those writings of eminent literary scholar and critic George A.
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9781933859453 | Isi Books, February 15, 2008, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism collects those writings of eminent literary scholar and critic George A.
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9780865548015 | Mercer Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $40.00
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9781557532060 | Purdue Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $20.95
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9781859730294 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 1, 1996, cover price $109.95
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9780802056047 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 1, 1983, cover price $30.00
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