American Social and Political Thought: A Concise Introduction - Softcover

Hess, Andreas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748612289 ISBN 13: 9780748612284

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This is a concise but comprehensive introduction to modern American social and political thought. The author aims to demonstrate the rich intellectual tradition of the United States and to facilitate a better understanding of American society and politics through careful exploration of key social and political theories and theorists.The book is carefully structured to facilitate understanding of potentially challenging ideas. In the first half of the book the author focuses on introducing the core traditions of American social and political thought - Exceptionalism, Protestantism, Republicanism, Liberalism and Pragmatism. The second half of the book applies these traditions to a broad range of twentieth-century conditions and issues - Power and Democracy, Justice and Injustice, Multiculturalism and Pluralism, Civil Society, Social Theory and Intellectuals. The works of some of the most influential figures in the field, such as de Tocqueville, Lipset, Arendt, Hartz, Pocock, Dewey, Moore, Rawls, Walze

About this title

About the Author:

Andreas Hess is Lecturer in Sociology at the University College Dublin

Review:

The author is ideally equipped to bring together continental European and Anglo-American traditions of social theory and analysis, both historical and contemporary, and to interpret one to the other ! I have no doubt that this book will become a central text in the field. -- Professor William Outhwaite, University of Sussex It offers a valuable introduction to key concepts in US history and politics ... useful as a supplemental text for broader course principles and for sessions on the American Revolution. -- Karen Jones, University of Essex The author is ideally equipped to bring together continental European and Anglo-American traditions of social theory and analysis, both historical and contemporary, and to interpret one to the other ! I have no doubt that this book will become a central text in the field. It offers a valuable introduction to key concepts in US history and politics ... useful as a supplemental text for broader course principles and for sessions on the American Revolution.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0748612289
• ISBN 13: 9780748612284
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160