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Regionalism and Nationalism in the United States - The Attack on "Leviathan" (Paperback)
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Regionalism and Nationalism in the United States - The Attack on "Leviathan" (Paperback)
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A quarter of a century before Lyndon B. Johnson popularized the
slogan "The Great Society," Donald Davidson wrote his critique of
Leviathan, the omnipotent nation-state, in terms that only recently
have come to be appreciated. "Leviathan is the idea of the Great
Society, organized under a single, complex, but strong and highly
centralized national government, motivated ultimately by men's
desire for economic welfare of a specific kind rather than their
desire for personal liberty. " Originally published as "The Attack
on Leviathan," this eloquent volume is an attack on state
centralism and an affirmation of regional identity.
Davidson's work is a special sort of intellectual as well as
social history. It reveals an extraordinary mastery of the
literature on regionalism in the United States, with special
emphasis on the work on Rupert Vance and Howard Odum in the social
sciences. Davidson looks at regionalism in arts, literature, and
education. He favors agriculture over industrialization, and "the
hinterland" over cities, examining along the way varying historical
memories, the dilemma of Southern liberals, and the choice of
expedience or principles. His book is a forceful and commanding
challenge to those who would push for central authority at the
sacrifice of individual and regional identity.
Davidson concludes with a devastating critique of nationalism
leading to a supra-nationalism. Ultimately, the heterogeneity of
human desires comes up against the uniformity of world systems and
world states. Davidson offers instead a broad world of intellectual
history and commentary in which individualism allies itself with
communities as a means for stemming the tide of collectivism and
its base in a world state. For Davidson, Leviathan, the monstrous
state, is a devourer, not a savior. As several peoples rise to
strike down their own Leviathans, this courageous book may be
better understood now than it was in 1938.
"Donald Davidson" was part of that movement in American letters
known as the Southern Agrarians. He was a poet, critic, historian,
and political analyst. He spent most of his life at Vanderbilt
University, and was himself born in central Tennessee. He is best
known as the author of "The Tall Men" (1927) and a collection of
essays, "Still Rebels, Still Yankees" (1957).
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