A distinguished group of international scholars, public leaders and practitioners explore in this volume contemporary issues that in some measure reflect Thomas Jefferson's ideas and ideals. They discuss successes and failures in implementing such ideas as democracy and human rights in various regions of the world. The volume is the product of an international conference initiated by the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello in collaboration with Jefferson's University of Virginia.
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"These are powerful essays exploring the complexities of Jefferson's ideas and their relevance today as liberal democracies face an illiberal network of nations. Any one interested in the origins of modern democratic thought and its pertinence to our world must read them."--Joyce Appleby, UCLA
"'The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World' offers a vigorous dialogue on what democracy means to different people. In doing so, it frames a key debate of our time, and gives Jefferson's ideals new life. This collection will help us navigate the stormy waters to come." --Lee H. Hamilton, President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations.
"The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World collects the seventeen papers presented at a scholarly conference in Bellagio, Italy, 2002, under the sponsorship of the International Center for Jefferson Studies, at Monticello, and the Rockefeller Foundation. It may be read as a revisit after some fifty years to the controverted issue between American exceptionalism and the export of American democracy to the emerging new nations of the Third World, an issue that echoes forcefully in our day. The essays are a rich miscellany: Jefferson and modern nation-building; Jefferson and his philosophical contemporaries; Jefferson and citizenship and human rights everywhere.
All these efforts to analogize Jefferson to the world, while full of perplexities, are nevertheless valuable. In the end I am led to observe that the most precious liberty of all in Jefferson's canon, the liberty of religious conscience with its corollary of separation of chuch and state, appears to have been largely 'lost in translation.' --Merril D. Peterson
"'The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World' offers a vigorous dialogue on what democracy means to different people. In doing so, it frames a key debate of our time, and gives Jefferson's ideals new life. This collection will help us navigate the stormy waters to come." --Lee H. Hamilton, President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations.
"The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World collects the seventeen papers presented at a scholarly conference in Bellagio, Italy, 2002, under the sponsorship of the International Center for Jefferson Studies, at Monticello, and the Rockefeller Foundation. It may be read as a revisit after some fifty years to the controverted issue between American exceptionalism and the export of American democracy to the emerging new nations of the Third World, an issue that echoes forcefully in our day. The essays are a rich miscellany: Jefferson and modern nation-building; Jefferson and his philosophical contemporaries; Jefferson and citizenship and human rights everywhere.
All these efforts to analogize Jefferson to the world, while full of perplexities, are nevertheless valuable. In the end I am led to observe that the most precious liberty of all in Jefferson's canon, the liberty of religious conscience with its corollary of separation of chuch and state, appears to have been largely 'lost in translation.' --Merril D. Peterson
About the Author
R.K. Ramazani is Edward R. Stettinius Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics, University of Virginia.
Robert Fatton Jr. is Julia Cooper Professor of Politics, University of Virginia.
Robert Fatton Jr. is Julia Cooper Professor of Politics, University of Virginia.
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- Notes on the State of Virginia (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Jefferson on 5 pages
- John Adams by David McCullough on 4 pages
- Liberal Peace, Liberal War: American Politics and International Security (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by John M. Owen in Front Matter, and page 281
- Reflections on the Revolutions in Europe by Ralf Dahrendorf on page 146, and page 149
- The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by John Greville Agard Pocock on page 71, and page 81
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