The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age

by Thomas L. Pangle

Book Overview

With the end of the Cold War, says Thomas L. Pangle, liberal democracy was deprived of its traditional enemy, and forced to re-examine its internal structure and fundamental aims. One result has been the moral-relativist "postmodernism" of mainstream Western intellectuals. Focusing on Lyotard, Vattimo, and Rorty, The Ennobling of Democracy offers a searching critique of postmodernism and its implications for political life and thought. Pangle carefully...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080184262X
• ISBN13: 9780801842627
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"