Essays in Political and Intellectual History
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Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Gerald Stourzh |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2010-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226776387 |
Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald Stourzh’s sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his career—from Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria. This storied career brought him in the 1950s from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago—of which he draws a brilliant picture—and later took him to Berlin and eventually back to Austria. One of the few prominent scholars equally at home with U.S. history and the history of central Europe, Stourzh has informed these geographically diverse experiences and subjects with the overarching themes of his scholarly achievement: the comparative study of liberal constitutionalism and the struggle for equal rights at the core of Western notions of free government. Composed between 1953 and 2005 and including a new autobiographical essay written especially for this volume, From Vienna to Chicago and Back will delight Stourzh fans, attract new admirers, and make an important contribution to transatlantic history.
Author | : Samuel Bernstein |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781412823968 |
In this collection of remarkable essays, initially published in 1955 and now available in paperback for the first time, Samuel Bernstein elucidates the meaning of human striving for improvement with regard to the problems raised by one of the most turbulent periods of history. Written with profound conviction and literary acumen, these essays will give the reader, in the author's words, a sense of a âkinship of ideas and the mutual sympathies of peoples in matters concerning human betterment.â These essays represents the fruits of twenty years of careful research in the political and intellectual history of the Atlantic civilization, particularly as it relates to the leading movements and men of France. Bernstein's expert knowledge of the history of political movements and social policies places him among the ranking authorities in that field. Contents: âMarat, Friend of the Peopleâ; âRobespierre and the Problem of Warâ; âBritish Jacobinismâ; âJefferson on the French Revolutionâ; âBabeuf and Babouvismâ; âSaint-Simon's Philosophy of Historyâ; âFrom Social Utopia to Social Scienceâ; âFrench Democracy and the American Civil Warâ; âThe First International in France, 1964-1871â; âThe Paris Communeâ; âThe American Press Views the Communeâ; âThe First International and a New Holy Alliance.â
Author | : J. G .A. Pocock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521886570 |
Selected essays of arguably the greatest and most influential historian of ideas of modern times.
Author | : J. G. A. Pocock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1987-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521316439 |
Pocock explores the relationship between the study of law and the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen.
Author | : Martin Jay |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845454289 |
Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.
Author | : Peter Eisenstadt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135628467 |
This volume is the first comprehensive examination of African American conservative thought and politics from the late eighteenth century to the present. The essays in the collection explore various aspects of African American conservatism, including biographical studies of abolitionist James Forten, clergymen Henry McNeal Turner and J.H. Jackson, and activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. Thematic essays in the volume consider southern black conservatism in the late nineteenth century and after World War I, African American success manuals, Ellisonian cultural criticism , the Nation of Islam, and African Americans and the Republican Party after 1964.
Author | : Michael O'Brien |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820315256 |
Bringing together Michael O’Brien’s pathbreaking essays on the American South, this book examines the persistence and vitality of southern intellectual history from the early nineteenth century to the present day. At once a broad survey of southern thought and a meditation on the subject as an academic discipline, Rethinking the South deftly integrates social history, literary criticism, and historiography as it positions the South within the wider traditions of European and American culture. In his thoughtful introduction and throughout the ten essays that follow, O'Brien stresses the tradition of Romanticism as a central theme, binding togethere figures as disparate as critic Hugh Legare, literary scholar Edwin Mims, poets Richard Henry Wilde and Allen Tate, and historians W. J. Cash and C. Vann Woodward. First published as a collection in 1988, these essays confirm O’Brien’s position as a pioneer in establishing and defining the enterprise of southern intellectual history.
Author | : Pierre Manent |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2019-12-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691207194 |
Highlighting the social tensions that confront the liberal tradition, Pierre Manent draws a portrait of what we, citizens of modern liberal democracies, have become. For Manent, a discussion of liberalism encompasses the foundations of modern society, its secularism, its individualism, and its conception of rights. The frequent incapacity of the morally neutral, democratic state to further social causes, he argues, derives from the liberal stance that political life does not serve a higher purpose. Through quick-moving, highly synthetic essays, he explores the development of liberal thinking in terms of a single theme: the decline of theological politics. The author traces the liberal stance to Machiavelli, who, in seeking to divorce everyday life from the pervasive influence of the Catholic church, separated politics from all notions of a cosmological order. What followed, as Manent demonstrates in his analyses of Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Guizot, and Constant, was the evolving concept of an individual with no goals outside the confines of the self and a state with no purpose but to prevent individuals from dominating one another. Weighing both the positive and negative effects of such a political arrangement, Manent raises important questions about the fundamental political issues of the day, among them the possibility of individual rights being reconciled with the necessary demands of political organization, and the desirability of a government system neutral about religion but not about public morals.
Author | : John Greville Agard Pocock |
Publisher | : London : Methuen |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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