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Progressivism - The Strange History of a Radical Idea (Hardcover): Bradley C. S Watson

Progressivism - The Strange History of a Radical Idea (Hardcover)

Bradley C. S Watson; Foreword by Charles R. Kesler

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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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Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2020
Authors: Bradley C. S Watson
Foreword by: Charles R. Kesler
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 978-0-268-10697-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General
Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN: 0-268-10697-5
Barcode: 9780268106973

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