Research Catalog

Title

The soul of a nation : America as a tradition of inquiry and nationhood / Christopher R. Altieri, foreword by Paolo Savarese.

Author

Altieri, Christopher R.

Publication

• Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2015]
• ©2015

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Savarese, Paolo

Description

xviii, 218 pages; 23 cm

Summary

In The Soul of a Nation: America as a Tradition of Inquiry and Nationhood, Chris Altieri contends that the forma mentis of the founders of the political society often viewed - by its members and by those external to it - as the non plus ultra of modernity, i.e., the United States of America, is really steeped in the more ancient tradition of thinking that began in Athens and continued through the Christian centuries. Engaging the twentieth-century philosophers Eric Voegelin, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Stanley Cavell - in critical conversation with the founding fathers - the author shows that a broad conversation regarding the constitution of society is constructively present in the public discourse of the people that began to recognize itself during the imperial crisis of the late eighteenth-century British America; that the participants in that conversation have at least an inchoate awareness of society as at once cosmic and anthropological; that that political society is therefore an apt field of study in and for the general science of order. --back cover.

Subject

• Political sociology
• Political science
• United States > Politics and government

Note

• Author's 2010 doctoral dissertation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781498225496
• 1498225497

OCLC

939531216

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library