Lincoln's Political Thought (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2015-02-02
Utmärkelser
Nominated for Lincoln Prize 2016; Nominated for New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize 2015
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Harvard University Press
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216 x 150 x 20 mm
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409 g
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1
ISBN
9780674368163

Lincoln's Political Thought

av George Kateb
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One of the most influential philosophers of liberalism turns his attention to the complexity of Lincolns political thought. At the center of Lincolns career is an intense passion for equality, a passion that runs so deep in the speeches, messages, and letters that it has the force of religious conviction for Lincoln. George Kateb examines these writings to reveal that this passion explains Lincolns reverence for both the Constitution and the Union. The abolition of slavery was not originally a tenet of Lincolns political religion. He affirmed almost to the end of his life that the preservation of the Union was more important than ending slavery. This attitude was consistent with his judgment that at the founding, the agreement to incorporate slaveholding into the Constitution, and thus secure a Constitution, was more vital to the cause of equality than struggling to keep slavery out of the new nation. In Katebs reading, Lincoln destroys the Constitution twice, by suspending it as a wartime measure and then by enacting the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery. The first instance was an effort to save the Constitution; the second was an effort to transform it, by making it answer the Declarations promises of equality. The man who emerges in Katebs account proves himself adequate to the most terrible political situation in American history. Lincolns political life, however, illustrates the unsettling truth that in democratic politicsperhaps in all politicsit is nearly impossible to do the right thing for the right reasons, honestly stated.
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It is a delicate moral exercise, Katebs attempt to affirm Lincolns greatness while nonetheless chastening our idolatry and leaving us with a troubling image of ourselves. There are few writers since Emerson who have even attempted this sort of thing, let alone succeeded at itKateb refuses to simplify. The words in his book both bleed and provoke; his double-edged honesty cuts repeatedly against his own druthers, as he says what idolaters and debunkers alike wish not to hearGeorge Kateb has added a splendid and bracing chapter to [Emersons] Representative Men. -- Jeffrey Stout * Commonweal * Unforgiving and original. -- David Bromwich * Reuters * An erudite work that gently unravels the great mans distortions and political expediencyThe book is compelling throughout. * Kirkus Reviews * Kateb is the most interesting and important philosopher of liberalism alive today, and whatever he says is worth thinking about. Although I disagree, sometimes heatedly, with many of the arguments here, its also a book Im going to continue to think about, a book Im going to have with me for a very long time. -- John Burt, author of <i>Lincolns Tragic Pragmatism</i> I have read quite a few Lincoln books over the past few years, and Lincolns Political Thought is the most enjoyable. For those who know Katebs work and I have been a fan of his for a long time all of his characteristic flourishes are here on display. -- Steven Smith, editor of <i>The Writings of Abraham Lincoln</i>

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George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, Princeton University.

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