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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... tion . The lessons we have all learned from our friend through his writing ( from The Idea of Fraternity in America [ 1973 ] to Beyond the Politics of Disappointment ? [ 2000 ] ) , through his speaking ( formal lectures , public ...
... tion . The lessons we have all learned from our friend through his writing ( from The Idea of Fraternity in America [ 1973 ] to Beyond the Politics of Disappointment ? [ 2000 ] ) , through his speaking ( formal lectures , public ...
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... tion . Political philosophers are in turn shameless as they ask us to think and rethink the unthinkable . But , if political philosophy is dangerous , if it can produce a treacherous Alcibiades , then what are we to conclude ? Not , he ...
... tion . Political philosophers are in turn shameless as they ask us to think and rethink the unthinkable . But , if political philosophy is dangerous , if it can produce a treacherous Alcibiades , then what are we to conclude ? Not , he ...
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... tion , and upon what you hear , but you must " listen " with great care . The careful student is in turn ready to begin to read , to listen to the text as Carey has compelled most of them to listen to him . Carey begins his introductory ...
... tion , and upon what you hear , but you must " listen " with great care . The careful student is in turn ready to begin to read , to listen to the text as Carey has compelled most of them to listen to him . Carey begins his introductory ...
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... tion day , the moment when Americans simultaneously act as " rulers " and " ruled " in turn , when presidents and janitors enter a polling place to cast one vote , declaring with utter simplicity the equal dignity of all citizens . This ...
... tion day , the moment when Americans simultaneously act as " rulers " and " ruled " in turn , when presidents and janitors enter a polling place to cast one vote , declaring with utter simplicity the equal dignity of all citizens . This ...
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... tion the inescapable feature of a healthy democratic regime . Civic educa- tion , or education in the ways of the city ( civitas or polis ) , necessarily involves tempering the claims of partisan interest — without altogether denying ...
... tion the inescapable feature of a healthy democratic regime . Civic educa- tion , or education in the ways of the city ( civitas or polis ) , necessarily involves tempering the claims of partisan interest — without altogether denying ...
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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