CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES VII, SEMINAR: CULTURE AND VALUES, VOLUME 14

General Editor

George F. McLean

 

DEMOCRACY, CULTURE, AND VALUES

VOLUME I

 

DEMOCRACY:IN THE THROES OF LIBERALISM AND TOTALITARIANISM

 

Edited by

George F. McLean

Robert Magliola

William Fox

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. ROOTS AND FORMS OF DEMOCRACY

Chapter I.   Values, Cultures and Traditions

                  George F. McLean

Chapter II.  Some Hermeneutic Issues on Democracy from the Point of View of Different World Visions

                  Joseph Donders

Chapter III.  Democracy, Pluralism and Inculturation

                    Charles R. Dechert

Chapter IV.  Culture, Democracy and Constitution-Making: Some Tentative Observations

                     William Fox

PART II. CLASSICAL LIBERALISM VS. TRANSCENDENTAL VALUE

Chapter V.  Reform Absolutism of Joseph II in the Austrian Monarchy in 1781

                   Ronald Calinger

Chapter VI. Individual Freedom and Political Power

                    Algirdas Degutis

Chapter VII.  A Few Remarks on the Interconnections Between Science, Reason, Freedom, Democracy and Tradition

                     Richard K. Khuri

Chapter VIII.  In Search of the Human Sense of Dwelling

                       Jozef Pauer

PART III. MARXISM, POST-MARXISM, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN EASTERN EUROPE

Chapter IX.  Philosophy of Violence and Its Aftermath

                   Bohumila Kozelouhova

Chapter X.  The Path of the Czechoslovak People to Democracy

                   Jana Gasparikova

Chapter XI.  Threats to Democracy from Within: A Psychosocial Perspective

                   Ivo Reznicek

Chapter XII. The Antinomy of Science and Democracy in Modern China

                   Shu-li Ji



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