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＜図書＞
Liberalism and republicanism in the historical imagination

責任表示 Joyce Appleby
データ種別 図書
出版情報 Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1992
本文言語 英語
大きさ viii, 351 p. ; 24 cm
概要 Like dye cast into water, liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded "L" word of the 1988 presidential campaign, libera...ism in its historical context emerged from the modern faith in free inquiry, natural rights, economic liberty, and democratic government. Expressed in the nation-building acts of revolution and constitution-writing, liberalism both structured and limited Americans' sense of reality for two centuries. The nation's scholars were unable to break away from liberalism's pervasive hold on the American mind until the last generation--when they recovered the lost world of classical republicanism. Ornate, aristocratic, prescriptive, and concerned with the common good, this form of republicanism held sway among the founding fathers before the triumph of liberal thought, with its simple, egalitarian, rational, and individualistic emphasis. The two concepts, as Joyce Appleby shows, posed choices for eighteenth-century thinkers much as they have divided twentieth-century scholars. Entering one of the liveliest debates in the scholarly world about our ideological roots, Appleby follows the labyrinthine controversies that these two perspectives have generated in their day and in ours. In doing so, she addresses the tensions that remain to be resolved in the democratic societies of the late twentieth century--the complex relations between individual and community, personal liberty and the common good, aspiration and practical wisdom.
Like dye cast into water, liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded "L" word of the 1988 presidential campaign, liberalism in its historical context emerged from the modern faith in free inquiry, natural rights, economic liberty, and democratic government. Expressed in the nation-building acts of revolution and constitution-writing, liberalism both structured and limited Americans' sense of reality for two centuries. The nation's scholars were unable to break away from liberalism's pervasive hold on the American mind until the last generation--when they recovered the lost world of classical republicanism. Ornate, aristocratic, prescriptive, and concerned with the common good, this form of republicanism held sway among the founding fathers before the triumph of liberal thought, with its simple, egalitarian, rational, and individualistic emphasis. The two concepts, as Joyce Appleby shows, posed choices for eighteenth-century thinkers much as they have divided twentieth-century scholars. Entering one of the liveliest debates in the scholarly world about our ideological roots, Appleby follows the labyrinthine controversies that these two perspectives have generated in their day and in ours. In doing so, she addresses the tensions that remain to be resolved in the democratic societies of the late twentieth century--the complex relations between individual and community, personal liberty and the common good, aspiration and practical wisdom. 続きを見る

所蔵情報


: pbk 中央図 4B 311.25/A 59/50980682 1996
050211998006824

書誌詳細

一般注記 Includes bibliographical references and index
著者標目 *Appleby, Joyce Oldham, 1929-
件　名 LCSH:United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Republicanism -- United States -- History -- 18th century  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence  全ての件名で検索
分　類 LCC:E163
DC20:320.5/1/0973
書誌ID 1000052724
ISBN 0674530128
NCID BA14235709
巻冊次 : hbk ; ISBN:0674530128
: pbk ; ISBN:0674530136
登録日 2009.09.10
更新日 2009.09.10