The Lost Soul of American Politics - Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism

"The Lost Soul of American Politics" is a provocative new interpretation of American political thought from the Founding Fathers to the Neo-Conservatives. Reassessing the motives and intentions of such great political thinkers as Madison, Thoreau, Lincoln, and Emerson, John P. Diggins shows how these men struggled to create an alliance between the politics of self-interest and a religious sense of moral responsibility--a tension that still troubles us today.

Product details

• Authors: Diggins, John Patrick Diggins, Diggins John Patrick
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.1986
• EAN: 9780226148779
• ISBN: 978-0-226-14877-9
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 624 g
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / United States / General, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies