Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams

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Peter Dennis Bathory, Nancy Lynn Schwartz
Rowman & Littlefield, 2001 - 311 páginas
The prominent contributors in Friends and Citizens examine the relationship between friendship and politics in American thought and contend that democratic politics is incomplete without citizen friendship, and, similarly, friends need political life to provide a framework for virtue. This volume honors Wilson Carey McWilliams, a leading teacher and scholar of our time. Fourteen essays, by teachers, colleagues and students, pay tribute to him as friend and citizen, and seek to share their understanding of McWilliams's thinking through their own analyses of American political life. Friends and Citizens is rich in the humor, insights, heritage, despair and hope that characterize the work of Carey McWilliams and his unique vision of America's political promise. This is an important book for anyone interested in modern politics.

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Political Philosophys Response to the Challenge of Creation An Essay in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams
13
Friendship and Fraternity Overcoming Pride
45
Friendship and Politics Ancient and American
47
Politics and Friendship in the AdamsJefferson Correspondence
67
Politics and Friendship Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson
80
Seeing Differently and Seeing Further Rousseau and Tocqueville
97
Damn Your Eyes Thoreau on Male Friendship in America
123
Jane Addams and Democratic Citizenship
130
Political Parties the Constitution and Popular Sovereignty
171
Lincoln and the Politics of Refounding
193
The Ordinary Hero and American Democracy
214
Wilson Carey McWilliams and Communitarianism
234
From Community Theory to Democratic Practice
272
Conclusion Virtue and Democracy
287
Majority Tyranny in Aristotle and Tocqueville
289
Index
299

Citizens Aristocratic and Democratic
149
The Natural History of Citizenship
151
About the Contributors
309
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