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Republican Paradoxes and Liberal Anxieties title: : Retrieving Neglected Fragments of Political Theory author: Terchek, Ronald. publisher: Rowman & Littlefield isbn10 | asin: 0847683737 print isbn13: 9780847683734 ebook isbn13: 9780585118932 language: English Liberalism, Republicanism, Political subject science--Philosophy. publication date: 1997 lcc: JC574.T47 1997eb ddc: 320.5/1 Liberalism, Republicanism, Political subject: science--Philosophy. Page iii Republican Paradoxes and Liberal Anxieties Retrieving Neglected Fragments of Political Theory Ronald J. Terchek ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham · Boulder · New York · London Page iv ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706 3 Henrietta Street London, WC2E 8LU, England Copyright © 1997 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Cataloging in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Terchek, Ronald, 1936- Republic paradoxes and liberal anxieties : retrieving neglected fragments of political theory / Ronald J. Terchek. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Liberalism. 2. Republicanism. 3. Political sciencePhilosophy. I. Title. JC574.T47 1997 320.5'1dc20 96-17917 CIP ISBN 0-8476-8373-7 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-8476-8374-5 (pbk : alk paper) Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Page v To Mary Page vii Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 The Center Does Not Hold 2 The Players: Old and New 3 Strong Republicans 6 Anxious Liberals 8 The Multiple Languages of American Political Discourse11 Politics and Political Theory 11 1 15 Debates between and about Traditions Politics and Particularities 19 Constructing Traditions and Critiquing Society 21 How Distinctive Are the Languages of Republicanism 25 and Liberalism? Rich Commentaries and Rigid Commentaries 30 Theory and Practice 34 Moving Fragments across Time 35 2 47 The Stakes of Citizenship and the Citizen's Stakes Thinking about Stakes 48 Property and Citizenship 51 Aristotle, the Household, and Money 54 Machiavelli's Citizens and Householders 64 Rousseau, Property, and Liberty 70 Economic Contingencies and Republican Politics 77 Self and Society, Not Self or Society 79 Page viii 3 95 Noisy Republicans: Mythologizing the Founding and Justifying Conflict Differences, Disagreements, and Agreements 96 Foundations, Ambition, and Equilibrium: The Case of 99 Machiavelli Passivity, Agitation, and the Longevity of Rousseau's 107 Republic Another Republican Paradox 113 4 121 Anxious Liberals I: The Moral Individualism of John Locke Liberal Choice and Responsibilities 122 Abstracted vs. Busy Liberals 123 Liberal Imperfections: Autonomy and the Good Life 125 Radical Individualism and the Problem of Subjectivity 127 Making Freedom an Opportunity and a Burden: John 128 Locke's Anxious Liberalism Locke's Liberalism and Ours 137 5 147 Anxious Liberals II: J. S. Mill on Overcoming the Natural Self J. S. Mill and the Renewal of Tradition 153 The Participatory Mill 155 Is Mill a Genuine Liberal? 159 The Status of Culture in Mill 162 Anxious Liberals: Do We Need Them? 164 6 171 Interest-Group Liberals and Libertarians: The Critique of Adam Smith Interest-Group Liberals 172 Libertarian Debts 173 Adam Smith's Secular and Moral Agents 174 Dependence and Independence 179 Interests and Markets 183 The Deception of Wealth 185 Internalizing Limits: The Deception of Deference 187 The Dangers of a Demythologized Politics 189 Politics and the Corruption of Interests 190 Taxes and the New Civic Duty 191 Reading Smith Today 193 Page ix 7 205 The Languages of American Politics Continental Republicanism: A Reprise 206 The American Version of Republicanism 207 Recovering Liberalism 208 Republican Deference and American Egalitarianism 211 Republican Fragments and Reformulations: Stable 214 Property or the Opportunity Society Reconstituting the Founding and Lincoln's Moral 216 Impatience American Rhetorics 225 8 231 Paradoxes and Anxieties for Politics Today Reconsidering the Two-Language Paradigm 232 Returning to Republican Roots 233 The Lives of Ordinary Liberals 236 Enlarging the Debate for Communitarians 239 Enlarging the Debate for Contemporary Liberals 241 Welcoming Politics Back to Theory 245 Bibliograph 251 Index 267 About the Author 277
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