Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliamsWilson C. McWilliams, Peter Dennis Bathory, Nancy Lynn Schwartz The prominent contributors in Friends and Citizens examine the relationship between friendship and politics in American thought and contend that democratic politics is incomplete without citizen friendship, and, similarly, friends need political life to provide a framework for virtue. This volume honors Wilson Carey McWilliams, a leading teacher and scholar of our time. Fourteen essays, by teachers, colleagues and students, pay tribute to him as friend and citizen, and seek to share their understanding of McWilliams's thinking through their own analyses of American political life. Friends and Citizens is rich in the humor, insights, heritage, despair and hope that characterize the work of Carey McWilliams and his unique vision of America's political promise. This is an important book for anyone interested in modern politics. |
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Contents
Political Philosophys Response to the Challenge of Creation An Essay in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams | 13 |
Friendship and Fraternity Overcoming Pride | 45 |
Friendship and Politics Ancient and American | 47 |
Politics and Friendship in the AdamsJefferson Correspondence | 67 |
Politics and Friendship Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson | 80 |
Seeing Differently and Seeing Further Rousseau and Tocqueville | 97 |
Damn Your Eyes Thoreau on Male Friendship in America | 123 |
Jane Addams and Democratic Citizenship | 130 |
Political Parties the Constitution and Popular Sovereignty | 171 |
Lincoln and the Politics of Refounding | 193 |
The Ordinary Hero and American Democracy | 214 |
Wilson Carey McWilliams and Communitarianism | 234 |
From Community Theory to Democratic Practice | 272 |
Conclusion Virtue and Democracy | 287 |
Majority Tyranny in Aristotle and Tocqueville | 289 |
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Citizens Aristocratic and Democratic | 149 |
The Natural History of Citizenship | 151 |
About the Contributors | 309 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Editors | Wilson C. McWilliams, Peter Dennis Bathory, Nancy Lynn Schwartz |
| Contributors | Joseph Romance, Jean M. Yarbrough, Marc Landy, Tracy B. Strong, Norman Jacobson, Bob Pepperman Taylor, Dennis Hale, Gerald M. Pomper, Mac McCorkle, David E. Price, Edward A. Schwartz, Harvey C. Mansfield |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0847697460, 9780847697465 |
| Length | 311 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / American Government / General Political Science / Civics & Citizenship Political Science / History & Theory Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy |
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