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During the years leading up to World War I, America experienced a
crisis of civic identity. How could a country founded on liberal
principles and composed of increasingly diverse cultures unite to
safeguard individuals and promote social justice? In this book,
Jonathan Hansen tells the story of a group of American
intellectuals who believed the solution to this crisis lay in
rethinking the meaning of liberalism.
Intellectuals such as William James, John Dewey, Jane Addams,
Eugene V. Debs, and W. E. B. Du Bois repudiated liberalism's
association with acquisitive individualism and laissez-faire
economics, advocating a model of liberal citizenship whose virtues
and commitments amount to what Hansen calls cosmopolitan
patriotism. Rooted not in war but in dedication to social equity,
cosmopolitan patriotism favored the fight against sexism, racism,
and political corruption in the United States over battles against
foreign foes. Its adherents held the domestic and foreign policy of
the United States to its own democratic ideals and maintained that
promoting democracy universally constituted the ultimate form of
self-defense. Perhaps most important, the cosmopolitan patriots
regarded critical engagement with one's country as the essence of
patriotism, thereby justifying scrutiny of American militarism in
wartime.
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