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Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy / edited by Nicholas Buccola.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American Political Thought Series
- American political thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Philosophy.
- Democracy.
- United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
- United States.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Philosophy.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political and social views.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2016.
- Summary:
- An ideologically and methodologically diverse group of scholars reflect on the nature and significance of Abraham Lincoln's political thought. Although viewing Lincoln from different perspectives and through different lenses, the contributors to this volume coalesce around the idea that Lincoln's political thought has enduring relevance for how we think about liberal democracy.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Nicholas Buccola
- Part I. Lincoln and democracy
- Prosperity and tyranny in Lincoln's Lyceum Address / John Burt
- Providentialism and politics: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and the problem of democracy / Michael Zuckert
- Part II. Lincoln and liberty
- Lincoln and the ethics of emancipation: universalism, nationalism, exceptionalism / Dorothy Ross
- What if honest abe was telling the truth? Natural rights, race, and legalism in the political thought of Lincoln / Nicholas Buccola
- Part III. Lincoln and equality
- "The vital element of the Republican Party": antislavery, nativism, and Lincoln / Bruce Levine
- Lincoln's competing political loyalties: antislavery, union, and the constitution / Manisha Sinha
- Part IV. Lincoln as a liberal democratic statesman
- Four roads to emancipation: Lincoln, the law, and the proclamation / Allen Guelzo
- Lincoln's Kantian Republic / Steven B. Smith.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780700622184
- 0700622187
- OCLC:
- 944309815
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