Eldon J Eisenach
Biographic Data
| ID | 1023086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eldon J Eisenach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eldon J |
| FAMILY NAME | Eisenach |
| SIGNATURE | EISENACH E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tulsa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Kingdom Divided: Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era
The focus of evangelical Protestantism's Second Great Awakening (1790s–1830s) was the newly formed territories and states in the “West,” imagined as the site of America's rebirth, put back on its ordained path to prepare the world for its final redemption. Three national evangelical denominations—Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian—took the lead in churching the West through an impressive infrastructure of mission societies, publications, and se…
Which Wilson Do We (Dis)Honor
Woodrow Wilson is the only American political scientist to have served as President of the United States. In the time between his political science Ph.D. (from Johns Hopkins, in 1886) and his tenure as president (1913–21), he also served as president of Princeton University (1902–10) and president of the American Political Science Association (1909–10). Wilson is one of the most revered figures in American political thought and in American politi…
Religion and the Marketplace in the United States
Journal Article Religion and the Marketplace in the United States Get access Ed. by Jan Stievermann, Philip Goff, and Detlef Junker. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xiv, 295 pp. Paper, $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1220–1221, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav830 Published: 01 March 2016
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Religion in America: A Political History
Denis Lacorne, a distinguished student of American politics at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (informally known as Sciences Po), has written a fascinating and noteworthy study of American religion. Its primary focus is the historiography of the relationship between religion and American politics and identity as seen through the rich literature of French reflections on that subject. The book's chronology consists of five critical moments…
The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty
Journal Article The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty Get access The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty. By Reid John Phillip. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. 188 pp. $32.00, isbn0-87580-342-3.) Eldon J. Eisenach Eldon J. Eisenach University of TulsaTulsa, Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
Can Liberalism Still Tell Powerful Stories?1
The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth. (Hanna Arendt, The Life of the Mind: Thinking)2 2. Quoted in Victor Kestenbaum, The Grace and Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 8…
The Biblical Politics of John Locke
The Biblical Politics of John Locke, Kim Ian Parker, Editions SR, Volume 29; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004, pp. ix, 211. Parker's study is on the foundational role played by the creation story of Genesis in Locke's moral and political philosophy. Locke's First Treatise against patriarchalism was not only a refutation of Filmer's reading of Adam and original sin, it was a positive rereading of that story suggesting “an …
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America. By Lee Ward. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 470p. $90.00. This is a study of the origins and development of Whig political thought in England and America. James Tyrrell, Algernon Sidney, and John Locke all wrote during the Exclusion Crisis in England that ended in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Their common enemy was divine right absolutism and its chief spokesman, Sir …
Emerging Patterns in America's Political and Religious Self-Understanding
Parallel statements through the 1970s and 1980s can be found regarding study of the religious elements in early modern liberal political thought, notably that of Hobbes and Locke. By any measure, the study of religion in American politics, history, and culture, and in political philosophy today, is not only flourishing, it threatens to overwhelm us. This is true not only in the bureaucratic sense of the Religion and Politics Section of the APSA, …
Jumping Out Of Ordinary Time: Sacred Rhetoric in American Political Discourse
After the attack on the World Trade Center, a struggle immediately began over how to characterize that event. Was it an act of war or a crime? Those who wanted to contain the event within the framework of ordinary politics, to be handled by properly designated officials within pre-existing procedures and language, said the act was a crime, the perpetrators were criminals, and those who aided the criminals should be apprehended and tried in a cour…
Books in Review
Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal
Books in Review
Liberal Citizenship and American National Identity
I will discuss Civic Ideals in three contexts. The first is external to Smith's book: I propose a framework for a counternarrative, one that uses Smith's three-part classification of liberalism, republicanism, and ascriptive values, but in order to carry a very different story. This counternarrative stresses the decisive role played by the “ascriptive values” of common law, religion, and nationalism in infusing both substance and power into the “…
Book in Review
Bookends: Seven Stories Excised from the Lost Promise of Progressivism
[Author's note: Excising large chunks from book manuscripts is a common practice and rarely a loss to scholarly literature. Originally appended to various parts of my book manuscript on the intellectual origins of American Progressivism were seven stories to which I had become quite attached. I was surprised, therefore, when early readers suggested that I drop them because they interrupted the narrative flow of the text. I resisted this advice un…
The Lost Promise of Progressivism
The Lost Promise of Progressivism
Journal Article The Lost Promise of Progressivism. By Eldon J. Eisenach. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. x, 291 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-70060625-4.) Get access Edward A. Stettner Edward A. Stettner Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 787–788, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082333 Published: 01 S…
Pragmatic Democracy and Constitutional Government: Comments on Robert Eden
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Reconstituting the Study of American Political Thought in a Regime-Change Perspective
The story of American political thought has been told in many different ways. Three genres stand out. The first is written within the larger framework of intellectual history and takes the form of anthology and narrative summary. Among its most prominent features are an eclecticism of sources (from Roger Williams to Walt Whitman to Erich Fromm) and a heavy emphasis on the period from the first New England settlements through the victory of Jeffer…
Happy Slaves: A Critique of Consent Theory. Don Herzog
Self-Reform as Political Reform in the Writings of John Stuart Mill
Students of Mill's political theory know that he was both a political reformer and a social philosopher. An important part of Mill's life involved political struggles over the electoral franchise and schemes of parliamentary representation, the legal and social emancipation of women, land law and economic policy, and freedom of speech and the press. When turning to his best known writings such as On Liberty, Considerations on Representative Gover…
On Reducing Hobbes
The Dimension of History in Bentham's Theory of Law
BENTHAM WAS INDIFFERENT TO HISTORY So reads the scholarly literature. Students of Bentham such as Sir Henry Maine, Leslie Stephen, and John Plamenatz all agree that Bentham's utilitarianism was divorced from history. Bentham himself provides direct evidence of this assessment. To be sure, he said, legal reform requires the use of history, but is from the folly not from the wisdom of our ancestors that we have so much to learn.' Against this conse…
The Biblical Politics of John Locke
The Biblical Politics of John Locke, Kim Ian Parker, Editions SR, Volume 29; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004, pp. ix, 211. Parker's study is on the foundational role played by the creation story of Genesis in Locke's moral and political philosophy. Locke's First Treatise against patriarchalism was not only a refutation of Filmer's reading of Adam and original sin, it was a positive rereading of that story suggesting “an …
Reconstituting the Study of American Political Thought in a Regime-Change Perspective
The story of American political thought has been told in many different ways. Three genres stand out. The first is written within the larger framework of intellectual history and takes the form of anthology and narrative summary. Among its most prominent features are an eclecticism of sources (from Roger Williams to Walt Whitman to Erich Fromm) and a heavy emphasis on the period from the first New England settlements through the victory of Jeffer…
Self-Reform as Political Reform in the Writings of John Stuart Mill
Students of Mill's political theory know that he was both a political reformer and a social philosopher. An important part of Mill's life involved political struggles over the electoral franchise and schemes of parliamentary representation, the legal and social emancipation of women, land law and economic policy, and freedom of speech and the press. When turning to his best known writings such as On Liberty, Considerations on Representative Gover…
The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty
Journal Article The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty Get access The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty. By Reid John Phillip. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. 188 pp. $32.00, isbn0-87580-342-3.) Eldon J. Eisenach Eldon J. Eisenach University of TulsaTulsa, Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America. By Lee Ward. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 470p. $90.00. This is a study of the origins and development of Whig political thought in England and America. James Tyrrell, Algernon Sidney, and John Locke all wrote during the Exclusion Crisis in England that ended in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Their common enemy was divine right absolutism and its chief spokesman, Sir …
Liberal Citizenship and American National Identity
I will discuss Civic Ideals in three contexts. The first is external to Smith's book: I propose a framework for a counternarrative, one that uses Smith's three-part classification of liberalism, republicanism, and ascriptive values, but in order to carry a very different story. This counternarrative stresses the decisive role played by the “ascriptive values” of common law, religion, and nationalism in infusing both substance and power into the “…
The Lost Promise of Progressivism
Journal Article The Lost Promise of Progressivism. By Eldon J. Eisenach. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. x, 291 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-70060625-4.) Get access Edward A. Stettner Edward A. Stettner Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 787–788, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082333 Published: 01 S…
The English Legal System: Carryover to the Colonies
Crime, Death and Loyalty in English Liberalism
LNGLISH LIBERALISM is marked by two distinct modes of explanation for human action. One is a theory of learning and action based on maximizing self-interest in a world of scarce goods.' Its model of a just order is a government which protects each man in his body and possessions and enforces voluntary contractual exchanges. A second mode in these same writings is a theory of the historical origin of such political societies and the related proble…
Books in Review
Two Worlds of Liberalism. Religion and Politics in Hobbes, Locke, and Mill
Journal Article Two Worlds of Liberalism. Religion and Politics in Hobbes, Locke, and Mill, by Eldon J. Eisenach. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981, 262 pp. $20.00 Get access Richard K. Fenn Richard K. Fenn University of Maine, Orono Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 1, Spring 1982, Pages 84–86, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711421 Published: 01 March 19…
The Dimension of History in Bentham's Theory of Law
BENTHAM WAS INDIFFERENT TO HISTORY So reads the scholarly literature. Students of Bentham such as Sir Henry Maine, Leslie Stephen, and John Plamenatz all agree that Bentham's utilitarianism was divorced from history. Bentham himself provides direct evidence of this assessment. To be sure, he said, legal reform requires the use of history, but is from the folly not from the wisdom of our ancestors that we have so much to learn.' Against this conse…
Self-Reform as Political Reform in the Writings of John Stuart Mill
Students of Mill's political theory know that he was both a political reformer and a social philosopher. An important part of Mill's life involved political struggles over the electoral franchise and schemes of parliamentary representation, the legal and social emancipation of women, land law and economic policy, and freedom of speech and the press. When turning to his best known writings such as On Liberty, Considerations on Representative Gover…
On Reducing Hobbes
Reconstituting the Study of American Political Thought in a Regime-Change Perspective
The story of American political thought has been told in many different ways. Three genres stand out. The first is written within the larger framework of intellectual history and takes the form of anthology and narrative summary. Among its most prominent features are an eclecticism of sources (from Roger Williams to Walt Whitman to Erich Fromm) and a heavy emphasis on the period from the first New England settlements through the victory of Jeffer…
Happy Slaves: A Critique of Consent Theory. Don Herzog
Pragmatic Democracy and Constitutional Government: Comments on Robert Eden
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
The Lost Promise of Progressivism
Journal Article The Lost Promise of Progressivism. By Eldon J. Eisenach. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. x, 291 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-70060625-4.) Get access Edward A. Stettner Edward A. Stettner Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 787–788, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082333 Published: 01 S…
Bookends: Seven Stories Excised from the Lost Promise of Progressivism
[Author's note: Excising large chunks from book manuscripts is a common practice and rarely a loss to scholarly literature. Originally appended to various parts of my book manuscript on the intellectual origins of American Progressivism were seven stories to which I had become quite attached. I was surprised, therefore, when early readers suggested that I drop them because they interrupted the narrative flow of the text. I resisted this advice un…
The Lost Promise of Progressivism
Book in Review
Liberal Citizenship and American National Identity
I will discuss Civic Ideals in three contexts. The first is external to Smith's book: I propose a framework for a counternarrative, one that uses Smith's three-part classification of liberalism, republicanism, and ascriptive values, but in order to carry a very different story. This counternarrative stresses the decisive role played by the “ascriptive values” of common law, religion, and nationalism in infusing both substance and power into the “…
Books in Review
Emerging Patterns in America's Political and Religious Self-Understanding
Parallel statements through the 1970s and 1980s can be found regarding study of the religious elements in early modern liberal political thought, notably that of Hobbes and Locke. By any measure, the study of religion in American politics, history, and culture, and in political philosophy today, is not only flourishing, it threatens to overwhelm us. This is true not only in the bureaucratic sense of the Religion and Politics Section of the APSA, …
Jumping Out Of Ordinary Time: Sacred Rhetoric in American Political Discourse
After the attack on the World Trade Center, a struggle immediately began over how to characterize that event. Was it an act of war or a crime? Those who wanted to contain the event within the framework of ordinary politics, to be handled by properly designated officials within pre-existing procedures and language, said the act was a crime, the perpetrators were criminals, and those who aided the criminals should be apprehended and tried in a cour…
Books in Review
Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal
The Biblical Politics of John Locke
The Biblical Politics of John Locke, Kim Ian Parker, Editions SR, Volume 29; Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004, pp. ix, 211. Parker's study is on the foundational role played by the creation story of Genesis in Locke's moral and political philosophy. Locke's First Treatise against patriarchalism was not only a refutation of Filmer's reading of Adam and original sin, it was a positive rereading of that story suggesting “an …
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America. By Lee Ward. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 470p. $90.00. This is a study of the origins and development of Whig political thought in England and America. James Tyrrell, Algernon Sidney, and John Locke all wrote during the Exclusion Crisis in England that ended in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Their common enemy was divine right absolutism and its chief spokesman, Sir …
The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty
Journal Article The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty Get access The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty. By Reid John Phillip. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. 188 pp. $32.00, isbn0-87580-342-3.) Eldon J. Eisenach Eldon J. Eisenach University of TulsaTulsa, Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
Can Liberalism Still Tell Powerful Stories?1
The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth. (Hanna Arendt, The Life of the Mind: Thinking)2 2. Quoted in Victor Kestenbaum, The Grace and Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 8…
Religion in America: A Political History
Denis Lacorne, a distinguished student of American politics at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (informally known as Sciences Po), has written a fascinating and noteworthy study of American religion. Its primary focus is the historiography of the relationship between religion and American politics and identity as seen through the rich literature of French reflections on that subject. The book's chronology consists of five critical moments…
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