Cycles of American Political Thought

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Course No. 4820.
Compact discs.
36 lectures (30 min. ea.)
"Philosophy & intellectual history"--Container cover insert.
Lecture 1. America -- The philosophical experiment -- Lecture 2. Historical baggage -- Lecture 3. Theoretical baggage -- Lecture 4. A Puritan beginning -- Lecture 5. Expansion and individualism -- Lecture 6. The revolutionary context -- Lecture 7. The road to the Declaration of Independence -- Lecture 8. A "natural" revolutionary--Thomas Paine -- Lecture 9. The unconscious dialectic of Crevecoeur -- Lecture 10. John Adams-- "Constitutionalist" -- Lecture 11. A political constitution -- Lecture 12. A philosophical constitution--Faction.
Lecture 13. A philosophical constitution--Structure -- Lecture 14. A philosophical constitution--Interpretation -- Lecture 15. Disorganized losers--The anti-federalists -- Lecture 16. The "genius" of Thomas Jefferson -- Lecture 17. Jacksonian democracy--The "people" extended -- Lecture 18. Iconoclastic individualism--Thoreau -- Lecture 19. Inclusionist stirrings--Douglass and Stanton -- Lecture 20. The organic socialism of Brownson -- Lecture 21. American Feudalism--The vision of Fitzhugh -- Lecture 22. Constitutionalizing the slave class -- Lecture 23. Lincoln's reconstitution of America -- Lecture 24. Equality in the law and in practice.
Lecture 25. Social Darwinism and economic laissez-faire -- Lecture 26. Looking backward, looking forward -- Lecture 27. Teddy Roosevelt and progressivism -- Lecture 28. Supreme Court and laissez-faire -- Lecture 29. The women's movement and the 19th amendment -- Lecture 30. Eugene V. Debs and working-class socialism -- Lecture 31. Hamiltonian means for Jeffersonian ends -- Lecture 32. FDR, the New Deal, and the Supreme Court -- Lecture 33. The racial revolution -- Lecture 34. The new egalitarianism and freedom -- Lecture 35. The Reagan revolution -- Lecture 36. Cycles of American political conversations.
Professor Joseph F. Kobylka, Associate Professor of Political Science, Southern Methodist University.

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