Lippmann,Walter

Public philosophy C.1 - London Hamish Hamilton 1955 - 168p.

BOOK ONE: The Decline of the West
Chapter I: THE OBSCURE REVOLUTION
1. My Reason for Writing This Book
2. 1917: The Revolutionary Year
3. Internal Revolution in the Democracies
4. The Paralysis of Governments

Chapter II: THE MALADY OF DEMOCRATIC STATES
1. Public Opinion in War and Peace
2. The Compulsion to Make Mistakes
3. The Pattern of the Mistakes
4. Democratic Politicians.

Chapter III: THE DERANGEMENT OF POWERS
1. The Governors and the Governed The People and the Voters.
2. The compulsion to make mistakes
3. The Recently Enfranchised Voters

Chapter IV: THE PUBLIC INTEREST
1. What is the Public Interest?
2. The Equations of Reality

Chapter V: THE TWO FUNCTIONS
1. The Elected Executive
2. The Protection of the.Executive
3. The Voters and the Executive
4.The Enfeebled Executive

Chapter VI: THE TOTALITARIAN COUNTER-REVOLUTION
1. Certain of its Lessons
2. A Prognosis

Chapter VII: THE ADVERSARIES OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
1. Liberalism and Jacobinism
2. The Paradigm of Revolution
3. Democratic Education
4. From Jacobinism to Leninism
5. The Overpassing of the Bound


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