The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age

by Thomas L. Pangle

Book Overview

A searching critique of postmodernism and its implications for democratic political life and thought.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801846358
• ISBN13: 9780801846359
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher