Friends and citizens : essays in honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams
This is a collection of essays that honour Wilson Carey McWilliams as a leader and scholar. The 14 essays pay tribute to him as a friend and citizen and seek to share their understanding of McWilliams's thinking through their own analyses of American political life.
xiii, 311 pages ; 23 cm
9780847697465, 0847697460
43913090
Introduction: What Wilson Carey McWilliams saw in America / Patrick J. Deneen and Joseph Romance
FIRST THINGS (THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN PRIDE): Political philosophy's response to the challenge of creation / Thomas L. Pangle
FRIENDSHIP AND FRATERNITY (OVERCOMING PRIDE): Friendship and politics: ancient and American / Patrick J. Deneen
Politics and friendship in the Adams-Jefferson correspondence / Jean M. Yarbrough
Politics and friendship: Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson / Marc Landy
Seeing differently and seeing further: Rousseau and Tocqueville / Tracy B. Strong
"Damn your eyes!" Thoreau on (male) friendship in America / Norman Jacobson
Jane Addams and democratic citizenship / Bob Pepperman Taylor
CITIZENS (ARISTOCRATIC AND DEMOCRATIC): The natural history of citizenship / Dennis Hale
Political parties, the Constitution, and popular sovereignty / Sidney M. Milkis
Lincoln and the politics of refounding / Joseph Romance
The ordinary hero and American democracy / Gerald M. Pomper
Wilson Carey McWilliams and communitarianism / Mac McCorkle and David E. Price
From community theory to democratic practice / Edward A. Schwartz
CONCLUSION (VIRTUE AND DEMOCRACY): Majority tyranny in Aristotle and Tocqueville / Harvey C. Mansfield