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Progressivism - The Strange History of a Radical Idea (Paperback)
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Progressivism - The Strange History of a Radical Idea (Paperback)
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At its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of
progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of
progressivism. In Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical
Idea, Bradley C. S. Watson presents an intellectual history of
American progressivism as a philosophical-political phenomenon,
focusing on how and with what consequences the academic discipline
of history came to accept and propagate it. This book offers a
meticulously detailed historiography and critique of the insularity
and biases of academic culture. It shows how the first scholarly
interpreters of progressivism were, in large measure, also its
intellectual architects, and later interpreters were in deep
sympathy with their premises and conclusions. Too many scholarly
treatments of the progressive synthesis were products of it, or at
least were insufficiently mindful of two central facts: the
hostility of progressive theory to the Founders’ Constitution and
the tension between progressive theory and the realm of the
private, including even conscience itself. The constitutional and
religious dimensions of progressive thought—and, in particular,
the relationship between the two—remained hidden for much of the
twentieth century. This pathbreaking volume reveals how and why
this scholarly obfuscation occurred. The book will interest
students and scholars of American political thought, the
Progressive Era, and historiography, and it will be a useful
reference work for anyone in history, law, and political science.
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