American Political Thought (eBook, ePUB)

An Alternative View
Redaktion: Keller, Jonathan; Zamalin, Alex

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The twenty-first century presents unique political challenges, like increasing concern over racially based police brutality and mass incarceration, continuing economic and gender inequality, the rise of conservative and libertarian politics, and the appropriate role of religion in American politics. Current scholarship in American political thought research neither adequately responds to the contemporary moment in American politics nor fully captures the depth and scope of this rich tradition.

This collection of essays offers an innovative expansion of the American political tradition. By exposing the major ideas and thinkers of the four major yet still underappreciated alternative traditions of American political thought-African American, feminist, radical and conservative-this book challenges the boundaries of American political thinking about such values like freedom, justice, equality, democracy, economy, rights, identity, and the role of the state in American life. These traditions, the various authors show in different ways, not only present a much fuller and more accurate characterization of what counts as American political thought. They are also especially unique for the conceptual resources they provide for addressing contemporary developments in American politics.

Offering an original and substantive interpretation of thinkers and movements, American Political Thought will help students understand how to put American political thought into conversation with contemporary debates in political theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317213864
• Artikelnr.: 48210165

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Keller is Assistant Professor of Government at Manhattan College. His research is on American political thought, American political development and religion in American politics. Alex Zamalin is Director of the African American Studies Program and Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Detroit Mercy. He has written essays on topics such as politics and literature, ethics, social justice, psychoanalysis and race, and race and American politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents



List of Contributors



Introduction: American Political Thought: An Alternative View



Jonathan Keller and Alex Zamalin



Section I: African-American and Feminist Political Thought

Chapter1: African American Political Thought, Democracy and Freedom



Alex Zamalin



Chapter 2: Culture, Race, and Sovereignty: Problems in Contemporary Black Thought



Utz McKnight



Chapter 3: Audre Lorde and the Poetics of Love In the Movement for Black Lives



Laura Grattan



Chapter 4: Against Nostalgia: The Political Theory of Ida B. Wells



Jill Locke



Chapter 5: Revolutionary Pasts and Transnational Futures: "Home Lessons" from U.S. Radical and Third World Feminisms



Jocelyn M. Boryczka



Section II: Radical American Political Thought

Chapter 6: The Dispossession of the Public and the "Common Benefits" Clause: Working Against Neoliberal Oligarchy through U.S. State Constitutions



Shannon Mariotti



Chapter 7: John Dewey and the Geography of Power



Jason Kosnoski



Chapter 8: Counter-Patriotism and American Radical Politics



Maxwell Burkey



Section III: Conservative Political Thought

Chapter 9: An Alternative Tradition in Conservative Political Economy



Peter Kolozi



Chapter 10: A Rich Tapestry: Varieties of Conservative Jurisprudence



David G. Leitch



Chapter 11: The Christian Right and the American Biblical Tradition



Jonathan Keller

Rezensionen

'Bringing together an impressive group of scholars, Keller and Zamalin have edited a timely and essential book that elevates several underappreciated writers and thinkers to their rightful place in the history of American political thought. They also make a persuasive case that only by including the ideas of the marginalized--particularly African-Americans, feminists, radicals, and conservatives--can we truly understand the intellectual soul of America.' - Robert J. Lacey, Iona College, author of Pragmatic Conservatism: Edmund Burke and His American Heirs

'Far too many scholars still think of American political thought as a series of variations on classical liberalism and civic republicanism. Jonathan Keller and Alex Zamalin's American Political Thought: An Alternative View shows us how much more lively the picture really is. Bringing figures such as David Walker, George Fitzhugh, Emma Goldman, and Audre Lorde into the foreground, the book illustrates how radical and conservative, feminist and African American thinkers offered strikingly oppositional visions of the future. This collection remaps American political thought in a most productive way.' - Jack Turner, author of Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America