, to see if you have full access to this publication.
Book Titles No access
A Politics of All
Thomas Jefferson and Radical Democracy
Authors:
Publisher:
2022
Summary
No historical figure is more synonymous with establishing American democracy than Thomas Jefferson. Revolutionary, iconoclastic, yet pragmatic, the legacy of Jefferson as an intellectual and politician continues to reverberate across academic and public circles. However, Jefferson's writings on power, authority, and politics point to a different understanding of self-government than dominant liberal and republican interpretations suggest. Dean Caivano's interpretation of Jefferson's political, anthropological, and sociological meditations on power reveals an unknown Jefferson, who conceives the American nation-state as a network of dynamic autonomous communities enacted by a politics of all. Caivano pointedly argues that this unknown Jefferson fittingly aligns with historical and contemporary projects of radical democracy, stressing the need for constant resistance, inquiry, and dialogue. In a period, fraught with political division and hyper-partisanship, this timely, innovative reading of Jefferson invites a reappraisal of how we understand a vital founder of the American republic and what is at stake in the battle to save American democracy.
Keywords
Search publication
Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-5257-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-5258-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
168
Product type
Book Titles
Table of contents
ChapterPages
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
The Ancient Greek Polis No access Pages 1 - 30
The Unwritten Law No access Pages 31 - 60
Politics Without Centralized Government No access Pages 61 - 88
Eruptive Democracy No access Pages 89 - 110
Divide the Counties into Wards No access Pages 111 - 138
