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America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life

[1] 书籍信息

Claire Rydell Arcenas, America’s Philosopher：John Locke in American Intellectual Life,  University of Chicago Press, July 2022.

[2] 作者简介

Claire Arcenas is an American historian. She has particular interests in transatlantic intellectual, cultural, and political exchange between the late seventeenth and the mid twentieth centuries. Her first book, America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press), investigates the influence of the seventeenth-century English philosopher John Locke on American thought and culture over the last three hundred years. Her current research is supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation. Other research interests of hers include the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters; the relationship between political theory and practice in early America; and the transatlantic history of utilitarianism.

At the University of Montana, Professor Arcenas teaches courses on a range of topics in American history and historical methodology at both the undergraduate and graduate level. She also advises MA and PhD students whose projects explore topics related to American political, intellectual, and cultural history across a broad chronology.

[3] 书籍简介

The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of fields, as his writings touch on issues of identity, republicanism, and the nature of knowledge itself. Claire Rydell Arcenas’s new book tells the story of Americans’ longstanding yet ever-mutable obsession with this English thinker’s ideas, a saga whose most recent manifestations have found the so-called Father of Liberalism held up as a right-wing icon.

The first book to detail Locke’s trans-Atlantic influence from the eighteenth century until today, America’s Philosopher shows how and why interpretations of his ideas have captivated Americans in ways few other philosophers—from any nation—ever have. As Arcenas makes clear, each generation has essentially remade Locke in its own image, taking inspiration and transmuting his ideas to suit the needs of the particular historical moment. Drawing from a host of vernacular sources to illuminate Locke’s often contradictory impact on American daily and intellectual life from before the Revolutionary War to the present, Arcenas delivers a pathbreaking work in the history of ideas.

[4] 书籍目录

Preface
Chapter 1: Locke’s Legacy in Early America
Chapter 2: Locke’s Authority in the Revolutionary and Founding Eras
Chapter 3: Problematizing Locke as Exemplar in the Early United States
Chapter 4: Locke Becomes Historical
Chapter 5: Making Locke Relevant
Chapter 6: Locke and the Invention of the American Political Tradition
Chapter 7: Lockean “-isms”
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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