"From Individualism to Mass Democracy"
Author | : Edward Hallett Carr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 195? |
Genre | : Individuality |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward Hallett Carr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 195? |
Genre | : Individuality |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alex Zakaras |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195384687 |
Alex Zakaras argues that we must develop an ideal of citizenship suitable for mass society. To do so, he turns to a pair of 19th-century philosophers - John Stuart Mill and Ralph Waldo Emerson - who were among the first to confront the specific challenge of making mass democracy work.
Author | : Alex Zakaras |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2024-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691226326 |
A panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s bitterly divided politics Individualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike promising to expand personal freedom and defend individual rights against unwanted intrusion, be it from big government, big corporations, or intolerant majorities. The Roots of American Individualism traces the origins of individualist ideas to the turbulent political controversies of the Jacksonian era (1820–1850) and explores their enduring influence on American politics and culture. Alex Zakaras plunges readers into the spirited and rancorous political debates of Andrew Jackson’s America, drawing on the stump speeches, newspaper editorials, magazine articles, and sermons that captivated mass audiences and shaped partisan identities. He shows how these debates popularized three powerful myths that celebrated the young nation as an exceptional land of liberty: the myth of the independent proprietor, the myth of the rights-bearer, and the myth of the self-made man. The Roots of American Individualism reveals how generations of politicians, pundits, and provocateurs have invoked these myths for competing political purposes. Time and again, the myths were used to determine who would enjoy equal rights and freedoms and who would not. They also conjured up heavily idealized, apolitical visions of social harmony and boundless opportunity, typically centered on the free market, that have distorted American political thought to this day.
Author | : Stephanie M. Walls |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1623560640 |
"A comprehensive look at the foundations, and current state of individualism in the US, including an assessment of the implications for American democracy and citizenship"--
Author | : Charles William Eliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Collectivism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen S. Bush |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2017-11-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108506380 |
William James (1842–1910) argued for a philosophy of democracy and pluralism that advocates individual and collective responsibility for our social arrangements, our morality, and our religion. In James' view, democracy resides first and foremost not in governmental institutions or in procedures such as voting, but rather in the characteristics of individuals, and in qualities of mind and conduct. It is a philosophy for social change, counselling action and hope despite the manifold challenges facing democratic politics, and these issues still resonate strongly today. In this book, Stephen S. Bush explores how these themes connect to James' philosophy of religion, his moral thought, his epistemology, his psychology, and his metaphysics. His fresh and original study highlights the relevance of James' thought to modern debates, and will appeal to scholars and students of moral and political philosophy.
Author | : Jeremy Gilbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : 9781849649773 |
Common Ground explores the philosophical relationship between collectivity, individuality, affect and agency in the neoliberal era. Jeremy Gilbert argues that individualism is forced upon us by neoliberal culture, fatally limiting our capacity to escape the current crisis of democratic politics. The book asks how forces and ideas opposed to neoliberal hegemony, and to the individualist tradition in Western thought, might serve to protect some form of communality, and how far we must accept assumptions about the nature of individuality and collectivity which are the legacy of an elitist tradition. Along the way it examines different ideas and practices of collectivity, from conservative notions of hierarchical and patriarchal communities to the politics of 'horizontality' and 'the commons' which are at the heart of radical movements today. Exploring this fundamental faultline in contemporary political struggle, Common Ground proposes a radically non-individualist mode of imagining social life, collective creativity and democratic possibility.
Author | : James Nelson Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tomek Grabowski |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Democratization |
ISBN | : 1648250599 |
"This book investigates the long-term preconditions of lasting and successful democratization. It counters conventional wisdom that they are a matter of proper institutional design, or that the political culture of democracy is a by-product of modernizing economic change. Instead, it argues that achieving lasting democracy is difficult without a prior breakthrough to individualism: a system of beliefs centered on the belief in one's inner worth and in one's inner capacity for judgment. The rise of an individualist belief system that is widely proliferated in society requires social conditions that are in turn hard to meet, including a widespread breakdown of traditional culture, a frontier experience, and a process of civic nation building. The book's empirical focus, Poland, demonstrates the logic of the individuation process in a condensed form. Poland's road to individualism (and with it, to democracy) consisted of a catastrophic uprooting of broad segments of society in the aftermath of World War II, the rise of a frontier environment in the Western Territories acquired from Germany, and an unlikely emergence of the Catholic Church as a civic nation-builder in these Territories in the 1960s and the 1970s. However, the Polish case is not unique, and the book offers an analytical approach that could successfully be brought to bear on other cases of democratization, both past and present"--
Author | : Charles W. Eliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2017-08-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780649476466 |