Brian Wolfel

Thomas Carlyle and the Political Universe

From American Transcendentalism to an Elusive Post-Liberalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Carlyle's political philosophy and social criticism is applied to contemporary politics and political philosophy in the 21st century. His theory and conceptualization of transcendentalism is defended and promoted as a long-ignored political ideology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781666954234
• ISBN-10: 1666954233
• Artikelnr.: 70062810

Autorenporträt

Brian M. Wolfel is postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University Fort Wayne, and he has previously taught at Hamilton College and SUNY Oswego.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Scope of Thomas Carlyle in the History of Political Thought
Chapter 2: Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets and the Limits of Political
Theory
Chapter 3: Carlyle's Transcendentalism as a Platonic Political
Philosophico-Religion: A Comparison of Transcendentalism with Islam and
Islamism
Chapter 4: The Antagonism of Thomas Carlyle and John Rawls
Chapter 5: Carlyle's Construction of Justice and Contemporary Political
Philosophy
Chapter 6: Carlyle, Ellul, and Their Critiques of Modernity
Chapter 7: Carlyle's Theory of the Phoenix and the Dissolution of
Liberalism?
Conclusion: Carlyle's Transcendentalism and a New Stage of Political
Development?