Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliamsPeter 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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... modern America , Carey teaches us , is that " democ- racy has few footholds . " " The citizen finds little in public life to elevate the spirit or support dignity " ; indeed , a citizen " finds much that damages both . " In the process ...
... modern America , Carey teaches us , is that " democ- racy has few footholds . " " The citizen finds little in public life to elevate the spirit or support dignity " ; indeed , a citizen " finds much that damages both . " In the process ...
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... modern . So it is also for his world outside the class- room — engaged in university life since the University of California at Berkeley , then at Oberlin and Brooklyn Colleges , and now at Rutgers , the State University of New Jersey ...
... modern . So it is also for his world outside the class- room — engaged in university life since the University of California at Berkeley , then at Oberlin and Brooklyn Colleges , and now at Rutgers , the State University of New Jersey ...
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... modern lib- eralism , reminding us of our limits and our obligations , of the possibility for a common good . This older tradition is more demanding , at times calling upon citizens to deny their most obvious self - interest — often cen ...
... modern lib- eralism , reminding us of our limits and our obligations , of the possibility for a common good . This older tradition is more demanding , at times calling upon citizens to deny their most obvious self - interest — often cen ...
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... modern thought attempts to dispel mystery through uncovering , disclosing , even torturing nature . " If the ancients appeal to nature as a standard — here Aristotle comes to mind— the fact that the defining aspect of human nature is ...
... modern thought attempts to dispel mystery through uncovering , disclosing , even torturing nature . " If the ancients appeal to nature as a standard — here Aristotle comes to mind— the fact that the defining aspect of human nature is ...
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... modern politics tends to di- vide , Carey teases out the strains of equality and mutual obligation that can still be heard among the cacophony of political sounds . The great mystery of democratic equality , and the Herculean philo ...
... modern politics tends to di- vide , Carey teases out the strains of equality and mutual obligation that can still be heard among the cacophony of political sounds . The great mystery of democratic equality , and the Herculean philo ...
Índice
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 |
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Citizens Aristocratic and Democratic | 149 |
The Natural History of Citizenship | 151 |
About the Contributors | 309 |
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