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Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature (Hardcover)
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Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature (Hardcover)
Series: Frank M. Covey, Jr., Loyola Lectures in Political Analysis
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With the equality and liberty of the Declaration of Independence as
his fighting words, Thomas Jefferson created American democracy.
For the two hundred years since then, he has been studied and
debated worldwide, but never more intensely than in recent years.
His extensive and influential understanding of democracy's
foundation in reason and nature continue to make him one of the
most examined American founders. Thomas Jefferson and the Politics
of Nature is a collection of the very best current scholarship
devoted to Thomas Jefferson as politician, writer, philosopher,
Christian, and economist. Lead essayist Michael Zuckert presents
his comprehensive interpretation of Jefferson's political thought,
which Zuckert considers the best theoretical approach to democracy.
While Zuckert moderates Jefferson's natural rights philosophy with
a Kantian perspective, Jean Yarbrough responds with the argument
that Jefferson incorporates the authors of the Scottish
Enlightenment and principles from the Republican tradition to
achieve the same moderating effect. Garrett Ward Sheldon looks at
the broader cultural influences shaping Jefferson's thought and
traces his republicanism to his support of Christian ethics and
Aristotle. R. Booth Fowler examines why Jefferson, the leading
liberal theorist of the nineteenth century, became the hero of the
very different liberalism of the twentieth. Robert Dawidoff
considers Jefferson as writer and literary figure instead of
political thinker and actor, while Joyce Appleby renews an
appreciation of Jefferson's statecraft by a famous reexamination of
his commercial agrarian policy. Finally, James Ceaser traces
Jefferson's belief in racial inferiority to a speculative new
natural science prominent among contemporary European thinkers and
argues that Jefferson committed a significant error in reducing
politics to such conjectural "facts." This compact text is ideal
for professors wishing to offer a one-volume collection of current
Jeffersonian scholarship to undergraduate students. Professors and
students alike will find that the essays contain prompt, focused,
substantive discussions on the key issues facing Jeffersonian
scholars. This handy collection will be an invaluable classroom
tool for those studying not only Jefferson but also history,
political philosophy, and science, as well as the history of ideas.
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