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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... of friends . Democracy , for Carey , requires community , civic dignity , and religion . His pessimism about the health of American democracy does not , however , negate his admiration for democracy's history in America viii Preface.
... of friends . Democracy , for Carey , requires community , civic dignity , and religion . His pessimism about the health of American democracy does not , however , negate his admiration for democracy's history in America viii Preface.
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... religion — the nature of humans and their deity — and the world of politics . The second section , on citizenship , completes the whole . The work of teaching is always about these themes , for Carey . Whether he confronts them head on ...
... religion — the nature of humans and their deity — and the world of politics . The second section , on citizenship , completes the whole . The work of teaching is always about these themes , for Carey . Whether he confronts them head on ...
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... religion " derived from the Old World.5 The former , eternally hostile to the latter , teaches Americans to cherish their liberties , to pursue self - interest in both material and moral matters as long as no one is visibly damaged in ...
... religion " derived from the Old World.5 The former , eternally hostile to the latter , teaches Americans to cherish their liberties , to pursue self - interest in both material and moral matters as long as no one is visibly damaged in ...
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... religious thought is pervaded with mysteries , whereas modern thought attempts to dispel mystery through uncovering , disclosing , even torturing nature . " If the ancients appeal to nature as a standard — here Aristotle comes to mind ...
... religious thought is pervaded with mysteries , whereas modern thought attempts to dispel mystery through uncovering , disclosing , even torturing nature . " If the ancients appeal to nature as a standard — here Aristotle comes to mind ...
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... religious teachings , like Tocqueville , Carey views religion as an essential feature of healthy democratic life . For religion helps to temper the worst effects of majority tyranny and private liberty most pervasive in modern ...
... religious teachings , like Tocqueville , Carey views religion as an essential feature of healthy democratic life . For religion helps to temper the worst effects of majority tyranny and private liberty most pervasive in modern ...
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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