Democratic humility : Reinhold Niebuhr, neuroscience, and America's political crisis / Christopher Beem.
Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781498511438
- 1498511430
- Political culture -- United States
- Democracy -- United States
- Political psychology -- United States
- Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
- 306.20973 23
- JK1726 .B44 2015eb
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 20, 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : things are that bad -- Moderating our pretensions : Niebuhr on being human -- Between sentimentality and pessimism : Niebuhr on democracy -- Neuroscientists for Niebuhr -- Rattlers and eagles/Democrats and Republicans -- Partisan infotainment : a new business model for the new media -- Partisan infotainment and democracy : not all bad, not half good -- Weapons and instruments : using government to fix government -- Religion : a constant fount of humility -- Guardians of democracy : democratic humility through civic education -- Conclusion : democratic humility.
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