The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890-1920University of Chicago Press, 2010 M03 15 - 280 páginas During the years leading up to World War I, America experienced a crisis of civic identity. How could a country founded on liberal principles and composed of increasingly diverse cultures unite to safeguard individuals and promote social justice? In this book, Jonathan Hansen tells the story of a group of American intellectuals who believed the solution to this crisis lay in rethinking the meaning of liberalism. Intellectuals such as William James, John Dewey, Jane Addams, Eugene V. Debs, and W. E. B. Du Bois repudiated liberalism's association with acquisitive individualism and laissez-faire economics, advocating a model of liberal citizenship whose virtues and commitments amount to what Hansen calls cosmopolitan patriotism. Rooted not in war but in dedication to social equity, cosmopolitan patriotism favored the fight against sexism, racism, and political corruption in the United States over battles against foreign foes. Its adherents held the domestic and foreign policy of the United States to its own democratic ideals and maintained that promoting democracy universally constituted the ultimate form of self-defense. Perhaps most important, the cosmopolitan patriots regarded critical engagement with one's country as the essence of patriotism, thereby justifying scrutiny of American militarism in wartime. |
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... mean to be patriotic in a nation founded on a set of putative universal prin- ciples and composed primarily of immigrants and their descendants ? If the current political rhetoric is any guide , to be patriotic means to pledge uncrit ...
... mean to be patriotic in a nation founded on a set of putative universal prin- ciples and composed primarily of immigrants and their descendants ? If the current political rhetoric is any guide , to be patriotic means to pledge uncrit ...
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... mean to accentuate their claim that critical engagement with one's country constitutes the highest form of love. The cos- mopolitan patriots rejected the notion ascendant in their day that patriotism entails uncritical loyalty to the ...
... mean to accentuate their claim that critical engagement with one's country constitutes the highest form of love. The cos- mopolitan patriots rejected the notion ascendant in their day that patriotism entails uncritical loyalty to the ...
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... means to reconcile uni- versalism with cultural pluralism or liberalism with nationalism, we do better to view cosmopolitan patriotism as a site on which these and other ideologies conflict. Hence, readers seeking harmony will be ...
... means to reconcile uni- versalism with cultural pluralism or liberalism with nationalism, we do better to view cosmopolitan patriotism as a site on which these and other ideologies conflict. Hence, readers seeking harmony will be ...
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... means to the accumulation of private property , and politics the instrument for protecting property rights . Liberals clung to no impersonal standard of excellence publicly pursued as the object of life . Rather , making a virtue of ...
... means to the accumulation of private property , and politics the instrument for protecting property rights . Liberals clung to no impersonal standard of excellence publicly pursued as the object of life . Rather , making a virtue of ...
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... means overnight. Hence the refrain that echoes through his qualified praise in Democracy in America for American institutions and mores: they were above all the product of time—of grad- ual, incremental development. Time made America's ...
... means overnight. Hence the refrain that echoes through his qualified praise in Democracy in America for American institutions and mores: they were above all the product of time—of grad- ual, incremental development. Time made America's ...
Contenido
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2 Room of Ones Own | 39 |
3 Democracy as Associated Learning | 66 |
4 Ex Uno Plura | 89 |
5 To Make Democracy Safe for the World | 131 |
6 Fighting Words | 157 |
The Twilight of Ideals | 185 |
Notes | 191 |
Works Cited | 233 |
Index | 247 |
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Página 33 - I instantly felt that I had been losing the whole inward significance of the situation. Because to me the clearings spoke of naught but denudation, I thought that to those whose sturdy arms and obedient axes had made them they could tell no other story. But, when they looked on the hideous stumps, what they thought of was personal victory. The chips, the girdled trees, and the vile split rails spoke of honest sweat, persistent toil, and final reward.
Página 109 - We are Americans, not only by birth and by citizenship, but by our political ideals, our language, our religion, farther than that, our Americanism does not go. At that point, we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that from the very dawn of creation has slept, but half awakening in the dark forests of its African fatherland. We are the first fruits of this new nation, the harbinger of that black to-morrow which is yet destined to soften the whiteness of the Teutonic to-day.
Página ix - But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.
Página 126 - We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class ; but we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all men and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.
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Página 33 - Nature's beauty. Ugly, indeed, seemed the life of the squatter, scudding, as the sailors say, under bare poles, beginning again away back where our first ancestors started, and by hardly a single item the better off for all the achievements of the intervening generations. Talk about going back to nature!
Página 48 - I have ever regarded as a valuable possession, a sense of the genuine relationship which may exist between men who share large hopes and like desires, even though they differ in nationality, language, and creed; that those things count for absolutely nothing between groups of men who are trying to abolish slavery in America or to throw off Hapsburg oppression in Italy.
Página 110 - If you have heard a thousand voices singing in the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's " Messiah," you have found that the leading voices could still be distinguished, but that the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices of the chorus were lost in the unity of purpose and the fact that they were all human voices lifted by a high motive. This is a weak illustration of what a Settlement attempts to do. It aims, in a measure, to...
Página 78 - I am not so sure that we succeeded in our endeavors " to make social intercourse express the growing sense of the economic unity of society and to add the social function to democracy." But Hull-House was soberly opened on the theory that the dependence of classes on each other is reciprocal ; and that as the social relation is essentially a reciprocal relation, it gives a form of expression > that has peculiar value.