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Democratic Faith

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2006

Wayne Gabardi
Affiliation:
Idaho State University

Extract

Democratic Faith. By Patrick J. Deneen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 440p. $45.00.

Contemporary democratic theory has been flourishing. Recent liberal, communitarian, republican, deliberative, agonistic, pluralist, postmodern, cosmopolitan, cyberspace, and realist models and theories abound. Patrick Deneen's book is a significant contribution to this genre and original in its critical focus on those democratic theories that “insist upon the possibility of democratic transformation” and advance “a conception of human beings as both infinitely malleable and ameliorable” (p. 4).

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: POLITICAL THEORY
Copyright
© 2006 American Political Science Association

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