Willie Jones

Author(s):  
Kyle Scott

This chapter examines the political thought of Anti-Federalist leader Willie Jones and attempts to situate him in the broader context of American intellectual history. A Virginia native from a prominent family, Jones established a plantation in Halifax County, which he represented in a series of colonial and state assemblies. After the colonies declared independence, Jones took charge of the radical faction in the North Carolina legislature. At the Hillsborough convention of 1788, Jones saw no need for North Carolina to ratify the Constitution immediately. He believed emotional and cultural ties united the thirteen states whatever their political status. North Carolina could join the Union whenever it wished. In the meantime, it could demand amendments to protect individual and states’ rights. Jones’s position reflected the long standing and widespread belief that small republics best protected individual liberty.

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elías José Palti

Temporalidade e refutabilidade dos conceitos políticos[1]Temporality and refutability of political concepts Elías José Palti[2] RESUMO: Nas últimas décadas, o conceito do “político” de Carl Schmmitt tem ressurgido nos debates sobre teoria política, e isso também teve importante repercussão no campo da história intelectual. A distinção entre política e o político permitiu-nos reconsiderar a natureza de conceitos políticos, reavaliar a sua natureza controversa. Isso é visto agora como um resultado de sua indefinição. O fato de que conceitos como democracia, justiça, liberdade, etc. não aceitam qualquer definição, que resistem a toda tentativa, nasceria da natureza intrinsecamente aporética deles, isto é, do fato de que eles não se referem a nenhum conjunto de ideias ou princípios que poderiam ser listados, mas sim que servem como índices de problemas. O presente artigo pretende rastrear essa transformação teórica no campo da história política-intelectual, suas consequências para a pesquisa histórica. E também como isso afetou nossos meios de abordar a história intelectual latino-americana. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: História do Pensamento Político. História Intelectual. História do Pensamento Político Latino-americano. ABSTRACT: In the last decades, Carl Schmitt´s concept of the political has resurface in the debates on political theory, and it has had important repercussion in the field of intellectual history, too. The distinction between politics and the political allowed us to reconsider the nature of political concepts, reassess their controversial nature. It is now seen as a result of their undefinability. The fact that concepts like democracy, justice, freedom, and so on, do not accept any definition, that resist all attempt, would spring from the intrinsically aporetic nature of them, that is, that they do not refer to any given set of ideas of principles that could be listed, but rather they serve as indexes of problems. The present article intends to trace this theoretical transformation in the field of political-intellectual history, its consequences for historical research. And also how this affect our ways of approaching Latin American intellectual history. KEYWORDS: History of Political Thought. Intellectual History. History of Latin American Political Thought.[1] Publicação original: PALTI, Elías José. Temporalidad y refutabilidad de los conceptos políticos. Prismas: revista de história intelectual, n. 9, p. 19-34, 2005. Tradução de Pedro Prazeres Fraga Pereira e Vicente de Azevedo Bastian Cortese.[2] Professor da Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina) e da Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Investigador do Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas – CONICET.


1980 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 449
Author(s):  
Gene Wise ◽  
John Higham ◽  
Paul K. Conkin

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evonne Levy

<P>This study in intellectual history places the art historical concept of the Baroque amidst world events, political thought, and the political views of art historians themselves. Exploring the political biographies and writings on the Baroque (primarily its architecture) of five prominent Germanophone figures, Levy gives a face to art history, showing its concepts arising in the world. From Jacob Burckhardt’s still debated "Jesuit style" to Hans Sedlmayr’s <I>Reichsstil</I>, the Baroque concepts of these German, Swiss and Austrian art historians, all politically conservative, and two of whom joined the Nazi party, were all took shape in reaction to immediate social and political circumstances. </P> <P>A central argument of the book is that basic terms of architectural history drew from a long established language of political thought. This vocabulary, applied in the formalisms of Wölfflin and Gurlitt, has endured as art history’s unacknowledged political substrate for generations. Classic works, like Wölfflin’s <I>Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe</I> are interpreted anew here, supported by new documents from the papers of each figure.</P>


Author(s):  
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction provides an introduction to the history of American thought from the sixteenth century up until the present. Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European commentators and explorers. American thought grew from this foundation of expectation and experience, both enriched and challenged over the centuries by developments including the Revolutionary War, westward expansion, the rise of capitalism, the proliferation of diverse religions, immigration, industrialization, and the emergence of the United States as a superpower. This introduction provides an overview of some of the most compelling episodes and abiding preoccupations in American thought, while showing how ideas have been major forces driving the course of American history.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID A. HOLLINGER

These selected excerpts from a conversation now running nearly a quarter-century about The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook exemplify the efforts made by specialists in American intellectual history to decide just what constitutes the core of their field. An anthology designed for undergraduates has practical limitations, to be sure, that prevent its table of contents from ever serving as a complete map of a field. Specific research questions, not arguments over canons, properly remain the deepest center of gravity of any cohort of scholars. But assignments to students are one important indicator of what scholar–teachers take to be important, and these assignments are not unrelated to choices these same individuals make about the topics of their monographic contributions. Hence the lively correspondence that my coeditor, Charles Capper, and I have carried on with dozens of colleagues concerning the six editions of the only collection of sources for this field currently in print offers a window on how American intellectual history has changed in the last generation and what are its current directions.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-744
Author(s):  
THOMAS BENDER

When I entered graduate school in the fall of 1966, planning to study American intellectual history and perhaps intellectuals specifically, all the talk among the more advanced graduate students was a recently published book, The New Radicalism in America, 1889–1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type (1965), by Christopher Lasch. I read it eagerly, but I was not sure what to make of it. The author, Christopher Lasch, offered a very complex analysis of intellectuals’ lives and their social location—or lack of it. It gave as much space to their psychological needs as to their ideas. That seemed to diminish them. Just what did he intend? I wondered.


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