Sophie van Bijsterveld, "Culture, Secularization, and Democracy "
English | ISBN: 1032618558 | 2024 | 180 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
Following the approach developed by Alexis de Tocqueville, this volume views democracy as a cultural phenomenon. It starts from the assumption that if we are to adequately address concerns about the current state and future of modern Western democracies, we need first to tackle the cultural preconditions necessary for the functioning of a democracy.
Since Tocqueville's time, the book takes the most crucial change in the West to be 'double secularisation'. Here, this concerns, first, the diminished influence of organised Christianity. Even though secularity was partly a product of Christianity, secularisation is highly significant in terms of the cultural underpinnings of Western democracy. Second, it involves a decreased interest in and knowledge of classical philosophy.
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