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We cannot understand our current political situation and the
scholarship used to comprehend our politics without taking full
account of the Progressive revolution of a century ago. This
fundamental shift in studying the political world relegated the
theory and practice of the Founders to an antiquated historical
phase. By contrast, our contributors see beyond the horizon of
Progressivism to take account of the Founders' moral and political
premises. By doing so they make clear the broader context of
current political science disputes, a fitting subject as American
professional political science enters its second century. The
contributors to the volume specify the changes in the new world
that Progressivism brought into being. Part I emphasizes the
contrast between various Progressives and their doctrines, and the
American Founding on political institutions including the
presidency, political parties, and the courts; statesmen include
Frederick Douglass, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and John
Marshall. Part II emphasizes the radical nature of Progressivism in
a variety of areas critical to the American constitutional
government and self-understanding of the American mind. Subjects
covered include social science, property rights, Darwinism, free
speech, and political science as a liberal art. The essays provide
intellectual guidance to political scientists and indicate to
political practitioners the peculiar perspectives embedded in
current political science. Published in cooperation with The
Claremont Institute.
In Print the Legend: Politics, Culture, and Civic Virtue in the
Films of John Ford, a collection of writers explore Ford's view of
politics, popular culture, and civic virtue in some of his best
films: Drums Along the Mohawk, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance, Stagecoach, How Green Was My Valley, and The Last
Hurrah. John Ford, more than most motion picture directors, invites
his viewers into a serious discussion of these themes. For
instance, one can consider Plato's timeless question 'What is
justice?' in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, vengeance as
classical Greek tragedy in The Searchers, or ethnic politics in The
Last Hurrah. Ford's films never grow stale or seem dated because he
continually probes the most important questions of our civic
culture: what must we do to survive, prosper, pursue happiness, and
retain our common decency as a regime? Further, viewing them from a
distance of time, we are subtly invited to ask whether anything has
been lost or gained since Ford celebrated the civic virtues of an
earlier America. Is Ford's America an idealized America or a lost
America?
In Print the Legend: Politics, Culture, and Civic Virtue in the
Films of John Ford, a collection of writers explore Ford's view of
politics, popular culture, and civic virtue in some of his best
films: Drums Along the Mohawk, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance, Stagecoach, How Green Was My Valley, and The Last
Hurrah. John Ford, more than most motion picture directors, invites
his viewers into a serious discussion of these themes. For
instance, one can consider Plato's timeless question "What is
justice?" in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, vengeance as
classical Greek tragedy in The Searchers, or ethnic politics in The
Last Hurrah. Ford's films never grow stale or seem dated because he
continually probes the most important questions of our civic
culture: what must we do to survive, prosper, pursue happiness, and
retain our common decency as a regime? Further, viewing them from a
distance of time, we are subtly invited to ask whether anything has
been lost or gained since Ford celebrated the civic virtues of an
earlier America. Is Ford's America an idealized America or a lost
America?
Working with the underlying premise that America's founding
principles continue to be vital in the modern era, Erler, Marini,
and West take a conservative look at immigration, one of today's
most pressing political issues. Character-the capacity to live a
life befitting republican citizens-is, as the Founders knew,
crucial to the debate about immigration. The Founders on
Citizenship and Immigration seeks to revive the issue of republican
character in the current immigration debate and to elucidate the
constitutional foundations of American citizenship. Published in
cooperation with the Claremont Institute.
Working with the underlying premise that America's founding
principles continue to be vital in the modern era, Erler, Marini,
and West take a conservative look at immigration, one of today's
most pressing political issues. Character_the capacity to live a
life befitting republican citizens_is, as the Founders knew,
crucial to the debate about immigration. The Founders on
Citizenship and Immigration seeks to revive the issue of republican
character in the current immigration debate and to elucidate the
constitutional foundations of American citizenship. Published in
cooperation with the Claremont Institute.
Ronald J. Pestritto's and Thomas G. West's earlier volume The
American Founding and the Social Compact addressed the nature of
the thought and philosophy of the men who shaped the American
founding. In this second volume in a trilogy, Pestritto and West
examine the fate of the founders' principles in the nine teeth
century, when these principles faced their first great challenges.
Support of slavery, culminating in secession and civil war, came
from the South; and after the war came positivism, relativism, and
radical egalitarianism, which originated in Europe and infiltrated
American universities, where intellectuals repudiated the founders'
views as historically obsolete and insufficiently concerned with
true human liberation. In ten chapters covering major thinkers in
nineteenth-century American political thought, contributors discuss
the rise and resolution of ideological conflicts in the early
generations of the American republic. In Challenges to the American
Founding Pestritto and West have compiled an invaluable resource
for the roots of the twentieth-century departure in American
politics from the political vision of the American founders.
Ronald J. Pestritto's and Thomas G. West's earlier volume The
American Founding and the Social Compact addressed the nature of
the thought and philosophy of the men who shaped the American
founding. In this second volume in a trilogy, Pestritto and West
examine the fate of the founders' principles in the nine teeth
century, when these principles faced their first great challenges.
Support of slavery, culminating in secession and civil war, came
from the South; and after the war came positivism, relativism, and
radical egalitarianism, which originated in Europe and infiltrated
American universities, where intellectuals repudiated the founders'
views as historically obsolete and insufficiently concerned with
true human liberation. In ten chapters covering major thinkers in
nineteenth-century American political thought, contributors discuss
the rise and resolution of ideological conflicts in the early
generations of the American republic. In Challenges to the American
Founding Pestritto and West have compiled an invaluable resource
for the roots of the twentieth-century departure in American
politics from the political vision of the American founders.
The crisis of western civilization is a crisis of public
philosophy. This is the charge of Public Philosophy and Political
Science, a stunning new collection of essays edited by E. Robert
Statham Jr. Vividly cataloging the decay of the moral and
intellectual foundations of civic liberty, the book portrays a
generation of Americans alienated from institutions built on public
philosophy. The work exposes the failure of America's political
scientists to acknowledge and understand this alarming crisis in
the American body politic. The distinguished contributors examine
the evolution of public philosophy; the inextricable relationship
between politics and philosophy; and the interplay between public
philosophy, the constitution, natural law, and government. They
reveal the dire threat to deliberative democracy and the
fundamental order of constitutional society posed by public
philosophy's waning power to refine, cultivate, and civilize. The
work is an indictment of a society which has discarded a way of
life rooted in natural law, democracy and the traditions of
civility; and is a denunciation of an educated elite that has
divorced itself from the standards upon which public philosophy
rests. It is essential reading for philosophers and political and
social scientists seeking to resurrect the standards of American
public life.
The crisis of western civilization is a crisis of public
philosophy. This is the charge of Public Philosophy and Political
Science, a stunning new collection of essays edited by E. Robert
Statham Jr. Vividly cataloging the decay of the moral and
intellectual foundations of civic liberty, the book portrays a
generation of Americans alienated from institutions built on public
philosophy. The work exposes the failure of America's political
scientists to acknowledge and understand this alarming crisis in
the American body politic. The distinguished contributors examine
the evolution of public philosophy; the inextricable relationship
between politics and philosophy; and the interplay between public
philosophy, the constitution, natural law, and government. They
reveal the dire threat to deliberative democracy and the
fundamental order of constitutional society posed by public
philosophy's waning power to refine, cultivate, and civilize. The
work is an indictment of a society which has discarded a way of
life rooted in natural law, democracy and the traditions of
civility; and is a denunciation of an educated elite that has
divorced itself from the standards upon which public philosophy
rests. It is essential reading for philosophers and political and
social scientists seeking to resurrect the standards of American
public life.
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