American Social and Political Thought: A Reader

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Andreas Hess
NYU Press, 2003 - 480 páginas

This concise, comprehensive primer on modern American social and political thought is the ideal introduction to the rich intellectual tradition of the United Sates. Andreas Hess helps the reader to understand of American culture and politics through careful exploration of key and theorists.

In the first half of the book he focuses on the core traditions of American social and political thought American exceptionalism, Calvinist Protestantism, republicanism, liberalism and 20th century pragmatism. The second half of the book applies these traditions to a broad range of 20th century conditions and issues power and democracy, justice and injustice, multiculturalism and pluralism, civil society, social theory and the role of the intellectual. The works of some of the most influential figures in the field, such as De Tocqueville, Lipset, Arendt, Hartz, Pocock, Dewey, Moore, Rawls, Walzer, Rorty and Alexander, are drawn upon to illustrate the theories and issues being discussed. Accessibly written and jargon free, this treatment will be useful for students and scholars alike.

 

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Introduction
1
Richard Hofstadter
9
Thomas Paine
11
Exceptionalism
15
Frederick Jackson Turner
22
Thomas Paine
29
Seymour Martin Lipset
39
Political Theology
45
Robert Bellah et
275
Sheldon S Wolin
281
John Rawls
287
Michael Walzer
297
Ronald Dworkin
303
Pluralism and Multiculturalism
311
Charles Taylor
320
Michael Walzer
326

Alexis de Tocqueville
54
The Age of Reason
61
Perry Miller
76
Will Herberg
89
Joyce Appleby
113
James Madison Alexander Hamilton John
126
Benjamin Barber
141
Louis Hartz
155
John Rawls
171
Judith N Shklar
179
Pragmatism
199
The Power Elite
215
MODERN
235
Robert A Dahl
250
Benjamin Barber
263
K Anthony Appiah
332
bell hooks
346
Civil Society Social Theory and
353
Jeffrey C Isaac
362
Jeffrey C Goldfarb
368
Jean Bethke Elshtain
374
Mary P Ryan
389
Jeffrey C Alexander
396
Michael J Sandel
403
Nancy L Rosenblum
412
Richard Sennett
422
Albert O Hirschman
442
Mariners Renegades and Castaways
455
List of Authors
463
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Andreas Hess is a lecturer in Sociology at University College Dublin. He is the author of American Social and Political Thought: An Introduction (2000), and Concepts of Social Stratification (2001).

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