Democracy and tradition / Jeffrey Stout.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2004.

xviii, 349 pages ; 24 cm.

Published by Princeton University Press.

This book has been composed in Janson.

Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America.

The Question of Character -- Religious Voices in a Secular Society -- A Conditioned Rectitude.

Character and Piety from Emerson to Dewey -- Race and Nation in Baldwin and Ellison -- Religious Reasons in Political Argument -- Secularization and Resentment -- The New Traditionalism -- Virtue and the Way of the World -- Between Example and Doctrine -- Democratic Norms in the Age of Terrorism -- The Emergence of Modern Democratic Culture -- The Ideal of a Common Morality -- Ethics without Metaphysics -- Ethics as a Social Practice.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])