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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: The Democratic Malaise
I The Intensification of Social Divisions
2 The Revolt of the Elites
3 Opportunity in the Promised Land: Social Mobility or the Democratization of Competence?
4 Does Democracy Deserve to Survive?
5 Communitarianism or Populism? The Ethic of Compassion and the Ethic of Respect
II Democratic Discourse in Decline
6 Conversation and the Civic Arts
7 Racial Politics in New York: The Attack on Common Standards
8 The Common Schools: Horace Mann and the Assault on Imagination
9 The Lost Art of Argument
10 Academic Pseudo-radicalism: The Charade of “Subversion”
III The Dark Night of the Soul
11 The Abolition of Shame
12 Philip Rieff and the Religion of Culture
13 The Soul of Man under Secularism
Bibliography
Index
Praise
Copyright Page
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