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  • Series: American Political Thought (University Press of Kansas)
  • Hardcover: 344 pages
  • Publisher: University Press of Kansas (May 24, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 070061785X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0700617852
  • Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.4 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsImportant Essays on American Political Thought
By BebopBoomer on June 12, 2011
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Wilson Carey McWilliams (1933-2005), who taught at Rutgers for 35 years, was incomparably more gifted and erudite than many far more celebrated academics and public intellectuals. The heart of his interest was American politics and in particular American political thought, from its origins to the most recent developments. His central idea, derived (as he always acknowledged) in large part from Tocqueville and first expounded at length in his 1973 book "The Idea of Fraternity in America", was that American political thought had two elements, not just distinct but significantly in conflict with one another. On the one hand, the formal and so to speak "official" one, found in sources such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers and the writings of the Founders and Framers; on the other hand, a more traditional understanding deriving ultimately from Biblical faith and its many echoes and tributaries in American life, public and private. This latter understanding was more difficult (at least after the triumph of Federalists over anti-Federalists) to pin down in particular texts, though it often found expression in classic American writers such as Hawthorne and Melville, but was on the whole less "formal". It was more to be found in songs, stories, religious teachings, the traditions and practices of small-town America, and in some popular political movements (e.g. the original Populists of the 1890s) and organizations (he was, for example, a Democrat as well as a democrat). On the whole, he thought that this "second voice" in the American political tradition had a deeper understanding of human life and human nature, hence also of politics, than did the first or "formal" tradition.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsOn American Political Philosophy and its Practice
By Joseph Avant on July 10, 2013
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This collection of essays written by Wilson McWilliams provides its reader with a profound understanding of what are the most definitive theoretical principals that have oriented the practice of American politics since the founding. The editors have done a wonderful job of colleting McWilliams's writings that are most representative of the thematic way in which he attempted to understand and best articulate the perplexities of the American political tradition from their original sources. Alternatively, the unity of this book is in no way a prejudiced or ideological presentation of American politics; rather, the thread of this book provides a genuinely philosophical inquiry into both the original and subsequent understandings of what it has meant to be "conservative" or "liberal" in the American political tradition while also emphasizing the difficulties that both have had to wrestle with in their own self-understandings. What is at the core of that which one hopes to conserve within the tradition and why; similarly, how does one understand the tradition from which one is attempting to liberate the common good or the private interest from; and, finally, are such conservative and liberal movements consistent with democracy as we understand it? It is such an understanding that McWilliams intends to provide in order that we may better understand ourselves and hence "redeem" American democracy in such a way that addresses our deepest longings without a philosophical thinness that leaves it vulnerable to the fashionable critiques of contemporary philosophy.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsTable of Contents
By PJD on April 11, 2011
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Introduction

Part I: American Foundations
1. Democracy and the Citizen: Community, Dignity and the Crisis of Contemporary Politics in America
2. The Bible in the American Political Tradition
3. Protestant Prudence and Natural Rights
4. The Anti-Federalists, Representation and Party

Part II: America's Two Voices
5. Science and Freedom: America as Technological Republic
6. In Good Faith: On the Foundations of American Politics
7. The Discipline of Freedom
8. On Equality as the Moral Foundation for Community

Part III: American Politics, Public and Private
9. Ambiguities and Ironies: Conservatism and Liberalism in the American Political Tradition
10. Political Parties as Civic Associations
11. Democracy and Mystery: On Civic Education in America
12. National Character and National Soul

Bibliography: The Published Writings of Wilson Carey McWilliams
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