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Pragmatism, politics, and perversity : democracy and the American party battle / Joseph L. Esposito.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esposito, Joseph L., 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political parties--United States--History.
- Political parties.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Pragmatism--History.
- Pragmatism.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A philosophical yet detailed history of the American party battle explaining why partisan debate is so perverse and how it could be made less so. Building upon the heritage of American pragmatism, from Peirce to Rorty and the new pragmatists, as well as the work of historian Charles Beard, the book identifies that battle as a struggle between nation state and market state, with special emphasis on the perversity of Civil War politics.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Pragmatism and the democracy project
- Pragmatic political history
- A foundation on a serbonian bog
- Market state and nation state
- A judiciary for the market state
- Rogue justice
- Too much democracy
- Judicial review as ideology
- Religion and race
- Old wine in new bottles
- Rewriting history
- The great Kansas charade
- Free labor and the economics of slavery
- Civil War
- Disorder in the court
- Understanding the party battle
- Free speech in the age of the big megaphone.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-32545-1
- 1-280-84418-3
- 9786613711588
- 0-7391-7364-2
- OCLC:
- 806520906
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