Reconstructing America (Signed First Edition)

Ceaser, James W.

ISBN 10: 0300070535 ISBN 13: 9780300070538

Editorial: Yale, 1997

Idioma: Ingl�s

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Signed First Edition, First Printing of this study of how the idea of America as a symbol of negative and positive of aspects of political and social culture for observers from other nations and societies. Inscribed by James Ceaser to previous owners on the front endpaper. Tan cloth, 292 pages. Minimal sign of previous use.

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T�tulo: Reconstructing America (Signed First Edition)
Editor: Yale
Fecha de publicaci�n: 1997
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0300070535
ISBN 13: 9780300070538
Encuadernaci�n: Hardcover
Edici�n: 1st Edition
Estado: Fine
Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine
Firmado: Signed by Author(s)

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For many, America has become the primary symbol of all that is grotesque, deadening and oppressive. It is time, this text argues, to reaffirm confidence in American principles and remember that the US forged a system of liberal democratic government that has shaped the destiny of the modern world.

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With wit and passion, Ceaser traces the origins of the negative images of America, beginning with French scientists in the middle of the eighteenth century who viewed the country as a land of racial and physical degeneracy, and continuing with German thinkers from Hegel to Nietzsche, Spengler, and Heidegger, who viewed America as culturally inferior and a technological wasteland. Ceaser puts these critics of America in a dialogue with the country's defenders - among them Alexander Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Leo Strauss. By revealing the sources of the hostility to America, Ceaser undermines the position of its present attackers. He contends that only if we reassert political science rather than cultural and literary criticism as the proper intellectual discipline for directing politics will we free the real America from the symbolic America and vindicate its name.

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