Title American political thought : an alternative view / edited by Jonathan Keller, Alex Zamalin

Published New York, NY : Routledge, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge series on identity politics Routledge series on identity politics. Contents Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of contributors; Introduction American Political Thought: An Alternative View; Why "American" Political Thought?; Alternative American Political Thought; African American Political Thought; Feminism and American Political Thought; American Radicalism; Conservatism in America; Rethinking American Political Thought; Bibliography; PART I: African American and Feminist Political Thought; 1. African American Political Thought, Democracy, and Freedom The Nature of Political Thinking: Embodied Experience, Citizenship, and Love; Race, Domination and Community; The Many Faces of Power; Struggle and Freedom; The Abolition of Injustice; Bibliography; 2. Culture, Race, and, Sovereignty: Problems in Contemporary Black Thought; The Dead Weight of History; From Race to Culture; Collective Action; The Polity and its Problems; Epistemology; Reconciliation; Conclusion; Bibliography; 3. Audre Lorde and the Poetics of Love: In the Movement for Black Lives; If "Love Wins," Who Loses? ; Audre Lorde's Poetics of Love Transformative Love in the Movement for Black Lives; Bibliography; 4. Against Nostalgia: The Political Theory of Ida B. Wells; Wells' Anti-Nostalgia; Unafraid and Unashamed; New Horizons; The Radicalism of Wellsian Civil Society; Political Theory and Nostalgia; Notes; Bibliography; 5. Revolutionary Pasts and Transnational Futures: "Home Lessons" from US Radical and Third World Feminisms; Introduction; Home and Away: Colonial Discourse in Early Radical Feminist Thought; Decolonizing Home: An Intersectional View from Third World Feminisms Conclusion: Home Lessons for Contemporary Transnational Feminism; Bibliography; PART II: Radical American Political Thought; 6. The Dispossession of the Public and the "Common Benefits" Clause: Working Against Neoliberal Oligarchy through US State Constitutions; Liberalism, Neoliberalism, and Oligarchy: Defining the Contemporary American Landscape; Oligarchy; The Common Benefits Clauses; Calling Forth a Critique of Neoliberalism Rooted in the American Tradition; Conclusion; Bibliography; 7. John Dewey and the Geography of Power; Intelligence, Integration, and Power; Geography and Power The Contemporary Geography of Power; Practicing Public Geography; Note; Bibliography; 8. Counter-Patriotism and American Radical Politics; Narrating Patriotism and the Left; Conceptualizing Counter-Patriotism; Intersections of Patriotism and Radicalism; Counter-Patriots: William Lloyd Garrison and Emma Goldman; Bibliography; PART III: Conservative Political Thought; 9. An Alternative Tradition in Conservative Political Economy; Conservative Critiques of Capitalism: Antebellum Civil War to Present; Conclusion; Bibliography; 10. A Rich Tapestry: Varieties of Conservative Jurisprudence Summary 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. Book jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd Subject Political science -- United States. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. Political science Politisches Denken Politische Kultur United States Form Electronic book Author Keller, Jonathan, 1970- editor. Zamalin, Alex, 1986- editor. ISBN 9781317213864 1317213866 9781315619415 1315619415 9781317213871 1317213874 9781317213857 1317213858

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