| Democracy and Leadership Contributor(s): Babbitt, Irving (Author) |
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ISBN: 0913966541 ISBN-13: 9780913966549 Publisher: Liberty Fund OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1979 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - Law |
| Dewey: 321.8 |
| LCCN: 78011418 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.60 lbs) 390 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 offers a compelling critique of unchecked majoritarianism and addresses the great problem of how to discover leaders with standards. |