Republican Paradoxes and Liberal Anxieties: Retrieving Neglected Fragments of Political Theory

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Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 - 275 páginas
Ronald J. Terchek offers insightful and original solutions to the intellectual rigidity and theoretical fragmentation that characterize much contemporary debate in political philosophy. Offering fresh interpretations of republicans such as Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Rousseau, and liberals such as Locke, Smith, and Mill, Terchek persuasively argues that these 'strong' republicans and 'anxious' liberals share certain fundamental principles and ideals, despite their conflicting beliefs about the primacy of community, rights, citizenship, moral development, and the roots of human behavior. This critical analysis of the modern state of political theory challenges political theorists to avoid contentious debates and to abandon the apolitical and inflexible construction of the liberal-communitarian paradigm. This is important reading for anyone interested in political philosophy and theory.
 

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Debates between and about Traditions
15
How Distinctive Are the Languages of Republicanism
25
Theory and Practice
34
The Stakes of Citizenship and the Citizens Stakes
47
Mythologizing the Founding
95
The Moral Individualism
121
Lockes Liberalism and Ours
137
J S Mill on Overcoming
147
Libertarian Debts
173
Dependence and Independence
179
The Deception of Wealth
185
Taxes and the New Civic Duty
191
The Languages of American Politics
205
Paradoxes and Anxieties for Politics Today
231
Bibliography
251
Index
267

J S Mill and the Renewal of Tradition
153
Do We Need Them?
160
About the Author 277
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Ronald J. Terchek is professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park and the author of Gandhi: Struggling for Autonomy (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).

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