Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliamsPeter 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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... citizenship as a path to virtue . This volume is rich with the humor , insights , heritage , despair , and hope that characterize the work of Carey McWilliams and his unique vision of America's political promise . ABOUT THE EDITORS ...
... citizenship as a path to virtue . This volume is rich with the humor , insights , heritage , despair , and hope that characterize the work of Carey McWilliams and his unique vision of America's political promise . ABOUT THE EDITORS ...
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... Citizenship - United States . 4. Communitarianism - United States . 5. Democracy - United States . I. McWilliams , Wilson C. II . Bathory , Peter Dennis . III . Schwartz , Nancy Lynn , 1946- . JK1726.F685 2000 320 - dc21 Printed in the ...
... Citizenship - United States . 4. Communitarianism - United States . 5. Democracy - United States . I. McWilliams , Wilson C. II . Bathory , Peter Dennis . III . Schwartz , Nancy Lynn , 1946- . JK1726.F685 2000 320 - dc21 Printed in the ...
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... Citizenship 130 Bob Pepperman Taylor Citizens ( Aristocratic and Democratic ) 8 The Natural History of Citizenship 151 Dennis Hale 9 Political Parties , the Constitution , and Popular Sovereignty Sidney M. Milkis 171 10 Lincoln and the ...
... Citizenship 130 Bob Pepperman Taylor Citizens ( Aristocratic and Democratic ) 8 The Natural History of Citizenship 151 Dennis Hale 9 Political Parties , the Constitution , and Popular Sovereignty Sidney M. Milkis 171 10 Lincoln and the ...
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... citizenship , rather than voting , the defining quality of democracy " ( 79 ) . The essays in the present volume remind us of this important observa- tion . The lessons we have all learned from our friend through his writing ( from The ...
... citizenship , rather than voting , the defining quality of democracy " ( 79 ) . The essays in the present volume remind us of this important observa- tion . The lessons we have all learned from our friend through his writing ( from The ...
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... citizenship in order to make democracy work . It has its own worth for Carey , both in the persons of his many ... citizenship . Indeed , for us , it is this link between citizenship and friendship that is most remarkable in his writing ...
... citizenship in order to make democracy work . It has its own worth for Carey , both in the persons of his many ... citizenship . Indeed , for us , it is this link between citizenship and friendship that is most remarkable in his writing ...
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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