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Democracy and Leadership
Irving Babbitt
出版
Liberty Classics
, 1978
主題
Business & Economics / Leadership
Law / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
Political Science / History & Theory
ISBN
0913966541
9780913966549
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=F6YUAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Irving Babbitt was a leader of the intellectual movement called American Humanism, or the New Humanism, and a distinguished professor of French literature at Harvard. "Democracy and Leadership", first published in 1924, is his only directly political book, and in it he applies the principles of humanism to the civil social order. Babbitt rejects all deterministic philosophies of history, whether they be the older type found in Saint Augustine or Bossuet, which tends to make of man the puppet of God, or the new type, which tends in all its varieties to make of man the puppet of nature. He offers a compelling critique of unchecked majoritarianism and addresses the great problem of how to discover leaders with standards.