The birth of American political thought, 1763-87

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The birth of American political thought, 1763-87

Dick Howard ; translated by David Ames Curtis

Macmillan, 1990

  • : pbk.

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Naissance de la pensée politique américaine, 1763-1787

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Naissance de la pensée politique amérciaine, 1763-1787

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Translation of: Naissance de la pensée politique américaine, 1763-1787

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ISBN 9780333464939

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What was 'revolutionary' in the process by which the thirteen North American colonies affirmed their independence? What is it about that 'revolution' that still colours the way in which Americans engage in politics? Dick Howard, author of The Marxian Legacy, Defining the Political and The Politics of Critique uses a similar framework to look at America. What is the political, how does a critique of the present become a politics for the future, and especially, what becomes of radical politics once it abandons the economistic promises of Marxism? This book originally published in French, as part of the political debate leading up to the bi-centenary of the French Revolution, was awarded the 'Prix Littraire de l'Association France-tats-Unis.' The present English edition includes a new Introduction and an Afterword relating the author's argument to the two crucial novelties of American politics: the invention of a party system, and the institution of judicial review.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: the revolution as historical object, philosophical subject and political modernity. Part 1 Toward independence - sovereignty and the rights of man: the birth and the end of the First English Empire and American independence
  • the declaration of independence and the question of sovereignty
  • the revolution as rupture?. Part 2 Free institutions - the representation of the common good and the individual: the birth of the United States - the war, politics, the post-war period
  • history conceived - Republican institutions - radical Conservatives - Massachusetts and Virginia
  • , the confederated state
  • history reflected
  • problems of political theory
  • revolution and counterrevolution. Part 3 From Republican politics to liberal sociology: bankruptcy of the Confederation?
  • toward the Constitution - the Virginia Plan
  • the New Jersey plan
  • how to represent popular sovereignty?
  • to understand oneself as a revolutionary.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780333464946

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This text looks at the birth of American political thought in the 18th century, the effects of independence, the representation of the common good and the individual, the institutional functioning of the free nation every day problems and the different modes of political thought.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: the revolution as historical object, philosophical subject and political modernity. Part 1 Toward independence - sovereignty and the rights of man: the birth and the end of the First English Empire and American independence
  • the declaration of independence and the question of sovereignty
  • the revolution as rupture?. Part 2 Free institutions - the representation of the common good and the individual: the birth of the United States - the war, politics, the post-war period
  • history conceived - Republican institutions - radical Conservatives - Massachusetts and Virginia
  • , the confederated state
  • history reflected
  • problems of political theory
  • revolution and counterrevolution. Part 3 From Republican politics to liberal sociology: bankruptcy of the Confederation?
  • toward the Constitution - the Virginia Plan
  • the New Jersey plan
  • how to represent popular sovereignty?
  • to understand oneself as a revolutionary.

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