Handbook Political Theory.pdf

‘‘Locke dominates American political thought,’’ Hartz writes, ‘‘as no thinker anywhere dominates the political thought of a nati ...

HartzWnds Turner’s theory to be, simply put, wrong. Many nations have frontiers; but what other republic is so dominated, what p ...

Americans are? The struggle to identify not just un-American outsiders but American insiders has been an important part of Ameri ...

Hartz oVers the American South, with its militant racism and its blood- and-soil nationalism, its use of romantic (rather than r ...

United States had aseconddeclaration of independence, a cultural assertion of autonomy, in the age of Jackson, and the American ...

the Declaration’s signing, in the Miltonian moment of rebellion in New York, Americans begin with a question (‘‘If you b’st he.. ...

belonged in the United States; at other times, the political culture of the USA is resolutely Lockean—individualist, tolerant, a ...

seems the best hope available to them for leading free and meaningful lives, and for allowing others to do so as well’’ (Smith 1 ...

as familiar as it is alarming (Fisher 2004 ). One imagines, furthermore, that few readers, in the USA or elsewhere, would Wnd th ...

His anti-Semitism and racism are evident, if ironically displayed, and estab- lish his acquiescence in some of the most pernicio ...

Rogin,M. 1975 .Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. —— 19 ...

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these conversations at times intersect and overlap with, at other times radic- ally diverge from, those in Western political the ...

More speciWcally, the West’s self-deWned maturity congealed in contrast to both the distant past of the ancient Greeks and the m ...

2 Islamic ‘‘Modernism’’ ........................................................................................................ ...

Muslim backwardness and justifying European political, cultural, and economic hegemony. The challenge was thus to sever the asso ...

which the West had deWned itself as the embodiment of modernity. More speciWcally, we see in their projects not just elements dr ...

or the agreement of the community, one of the bases of Islamic religious law) to public opinion (Hourani 1983 , 144 ). Paradoxic ...

danger it poses to revealed truths and to the survival of the Muslimumma built upon them. Once reason becomes at once a method a ...

posits a separation between Church and State. Khomeini and Qutb both argue that this distinction violates the essential unity of ...