The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of LiberalismUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 août 1986 - 409 pages The Lost Soul of American Politics is a provocative new interpretation of American political thought from the Founding Fathers to the Neo-Conservatives. Reassessing the motives and intentions of such great political thinkers as Madison, Thoreau, Lincoln, and Emerson, John P. Diggins shows how these men struggled to create an alliance between the politics of self-interest and a religious sense of moral responsibility—a tension that still troubles us today. |
Table des matières
Whos Afraid of John Locke? | 18 |
From the Revolution to the Constitution | 48 |
John Adams the Federalist and the Refutation | 69 |
Not That Virtue Is Great But That Temptation | 100 |
THE FRONTIER POPULISM PROGRESSIVISM | 118 |
Ten Issues in Search of Authority | 131 |
An Idea in Search of an Institution | 163 |
Locke Calvinism and the Transcendentalist | 192 |
THE TERROR AND THE PITY | 321 |
Epilogue Liberalism and Calvinism in Contemporary | 334 |
The Problem of Ideology | 347 |
The Problem of Motivation and Causation | 353 |
The Problem of Language | 359 |
NOTES | 366 |
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