Compromise and the American Founding: The Quest for the People's Two Bodies - Couverture rigide

Fumurescu, Alin

 
9781108415873: Compromise and the American Founding: The Quest for the People's Two Bodies
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ISBN 10 : 1108415873 ISBN 13 : 9781108415873
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Why is today's political life so polarized? This book analyzes the ways in which the divergent apprehensions of both 'compromise' and the 'people' in seventeenth-century England and France became intertwined once again during the American founding, sometimes with bloody results. Looking at key-moments of the founding, from the first Puritan colonies to the beginning of the Civil War, this book offers answers of contemporary relevance. It argues that Americans unknowingly combined two understandings of the people: the early modern idea of a collection of individuals ruled by a majority of wills and the classic understanding of a corporation hierarchically structured and ruled by reason for the common good. Americans were then able to implement the paradigm of the 'people's two bodies'. Whenever the dialectic between the two has been broken, the results had have a major impact on American politics. Born by accident, this American peculiarity has proven to be a long-lasting one.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alin Fumurescu is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. In 2013, he won the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of political philosophy. He is the author of Compromise: A Political and Philosophical History (Cambridge, 2013), which has been translated into Chinese and Romanian. He has written several book chapters on compromise in edited volumes, and he is regularly invited guest speaker to international conferences on compromise.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108415873
ISBN 13 
9781108415873
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
266
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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ISBN 10 :  1108402453 ISBN 13 :  9781108402453
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2021
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