1 option
Cosmopolitanism and nationhood in the age of Jefferson / edited by Peter Nicolaisen, Hannah Spahn.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; Volume 238.
- American Studies : a Monograph Series ; Volume 238
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Political and social views.
- Jefferson, Thomas.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Nation-state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson' explores the origins of modern conceptions of world citizenship and the nation in Jeffersonian America. In today's discussions of a transnational world, cosmopolitanism tends to be understood as a potential antidote to problematic aspects of nationhood - indeed, cosmopolitanism is often treated as a direct antonym of nationalism. From the perspective of the eighteenth century, however, such an understanding would hardly be self-evident: for Thomas Jefferson and many of his peers in the late Enlightenment, it was possible to conceive of t
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; HANNAH SPAHN Introduction; GORDON S. WOOD The Invention of the United States; ARMIN MATTES "Une et indivisible"? Thomas Jefferson and Destutt de Tracy on the Idea of the Nation; THOMAS CLARK "Beware the wit of Voltaire": Benjamin Rush and the Limits of American Cosmopolitanism; MAURIZIO VALSANIA Beyond Particularism: Thomas Jefferson' s Republican Community; HANNAH SPAHN Cosmopolitan Imperfections: Jefferson, Nationhood, and the Republic of Letters; GAYE WILSON Thomas Jefferson and Creating an Image for a New Nation
- FRANCIS D. COGLIANO A "Philosophical vedette": William Dunbar, Thomas Jefferson, and the Republic of LettersCATRIN GERSDORF Early American Cool: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the Affective Foundation of Republican Government; PHILIPP ZIESCHE American Exceptionalism: Cosmopolitanism by Another Name; PETER S. ONUF Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson: Epilogue; Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 7, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9783825374143
- 3825374149
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.