Jean M Yarbrough
Biographic Data
| ID | 1014473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean M Yarbrough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean M |
| FAMILY NAME | Yarbrough |
| SIGNATURE | YARBROUGH J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rousseau and Bourgeois Man's Search for Wholeness
Why We Are Restless is informed by a certain Tocquevillean urgency. As the Storeys tell us in their introduction, their students, among the most privileged young people in America, are profoundly uneasy, their souls agitated and restless as they ponder questions about how they should live and what will make them happy. The Storeys attempt to make sense of this by examining the thought of what they call four “old French philosophers” (xii). They a…
Jefferson and Tocqueville
Although Tocqueville called Jefferson “the greatest democrat, who has yet issued from within the American democracy,” a close reading of their works suggests that Tocqueville’s assessment of Jefferson was far more mixed than first appears. In the first section, I take up Jefferson’s understanding of the principles of the Declaration of Independence and offer arguments for why Tocqueville chose not to cite the Declaration in Democracy in America. …
Tocqueville on the Needs of the Soul
This essay revisits Tocqueville's distinctive liberalism by placing the needs of the soul at the center of his political thought. By the soul, Tocqueville means humanity's capacity for thought and action to satisfy its deepest longings for political freedom and greatness in this world and immortality in the next; in short, for the spiritual side of human nature too easily lost sight of in democratic ages. In contrast to recent studies that take u…
Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time
For anyone dismayed by the salacious and defamatory political battles carried on in today's press, a bit of historical perspective is necessary. Robert M. S. McDonald's carefully researched and beautifully written study of how Thomas Jefferson was viewed in his own time provides ample information that our present unpleasantness is far from new. Confounding Father presents itself as a prequel to Merrill D. Peterson's classic study The Jefferson Im…
American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Asylum for Mankind: America, 1607-1800
American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Journal Article American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People. By Jean M. Yarbrough. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xxiv, 256 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0906-7.) Get access Richard K. Matthews Richard K. Matthews Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 206–207, https://doi.…
American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Jefferson and Tocqueville
Although Tocqueville called Jefferson “the greatest democrat, who has yet issued from within the American democracy,” a close reading of their works suggests that Tocqueville’s assessment of Jefferson was far more mixed than first appears. In the first section, I take up Jefferson’s understanding of the principles of the Declaration of Independence and offer arguments for why Tocqueville chose not to cite the Declaration in Democracy in America. …
Tocqueville on the Needs of the Soul
This essay revisits Tocqueville's distinctive liberalism by placing the needs of the soul at the center of his political thought. By the soul, Tocqueville means humanity's capacity for thought and action to satisfy its deepest longings for political freedom and greatness in this world and immortality in the next; in short, for the spiritual side of human nature too easily lost sight of in democratic ages. In contrast to recent studies that take u…
American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Asylum for Mankind: America, 1607-1800
American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Journal Article American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People. By Jean M. Yarbrough. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xxiv, 256 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0906-7.) Get access Richard K. Matthews Richard K. Matthews Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 206–207, https://doi.…
American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time
For anyone dismayed by the salacious and defamatory political battles carried on in today's press, a bit of historical perspective is necessary. Robert M. S. McDonald's carefully researched and beautifully written study of how Thomas Jefferson was viewed in his own time provides ample information that our present unpleasantness is far from new. Confounding Father presents itself as a prequel to Merrill D. Peterson's classic study The Jefferson Im…
Tocqueville on the Needs of the Soul
This essay revisits Tocqueville's distinctive liberalism by placing the needs of the soul at the center of his political thought. By the soul, Tocqueville means humanity's capacity for thought and action to satisfy its deepest longings for political freedom and greatness in this world and immortality in the next; in short, for the spiritual side of human nature too easily lost sight of in democratic ages. In contrast to recent studies that take u…
Jefferson and Tocqueville
Although Tocqueville called Jefferson “the greatest democrat, who has yet issued from within the American democracy,” a close reading of their works suggests that Tocqueville’s assessment of Jefferson was far more mixed than first appears. In the first section, I take up Jefferson’s understanding of the principles of the Declaration of Independence and offer arguments for why Tocqueville chose not to cite the Declaration in Democracy in America. …
Rousseau and Bourgeois Man's Search for Wholeness
Why We Are Restless is informed by a certain Tocquevillean urgency. As the Storeys tell us in their introduction, their students, among the most privileged young people in America, are profoundly uneasy, their souls agitated and restless as they ponder questions about how they should live and what will make them happy. The Storeys attempt to make sense of this by examining the thought of what they call four “old French philosophers” (xii). They a…
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