The Dark Side of Liberalism: Elitism vs. Democracy

by Robert Hollinger

This interdisciplinary study on liberalism explores the history of liberal thought in philosophy, the social sciences, cultural theory, and American political theory. The discussion focuses on an internal conflict between cultural and political values that favor political elitism and doctrines that favor some form of political democracy. Telling the story of the liberal elite and its ambivalent relationship to democracy, Hollingers show why the decline...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275953343
• ISBN13: 9780275953348
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.6"