Christopher M Duncan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3626826 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christopher M Duncan |
| PRENOMES | Christopher M |
| SOBRENOME | Duncan |
| ASSINATURA | DUNCAN C M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Dayton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0645-4762 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Donald Trump, Political Theology and the Religion of Power
In this article I discuss a dangerous subtext that lies beneath Trump’s visible lack of serious Christian witness. It provides the fuel to a heretical fire that is poised to engulf those Christians whom I will suggest have quite literally made a deal with the Devil without realizing it. My argument is not that Trump is just a radically imperfect vessel for what may be legitimate public policy positions, but rather that he represents a robustly id…
Catholicism, Poverty and the Pursuit of Happiness
The following article is divided into three substantive sections. In the first section, “ontology, poverty and Catholicism,” I will attempt to lay out the basic parameters of a Catholic approach to the human person and the subsequent implications of that approach for understanding the question of poverty. In the second section, “liberalism, poverty and welfare in the U.S.,” I will juxtapose the Catholic approach with what is arguably the dominate…
Lincoln's Theocentric Turn
In this essay I argue that Abraham Lincoln turned to a theocentric discourse to conceptualize the American Civil War. I attempt to address why he used a theocentric approach to the conceptualization of political problems and what the relationship is between that theocentric approach and his political principles, inspired policy outcomes, and the subsequent nature of American political culture and politics. It is my argument that Lincoln used a th…
A Question for Richard Rorty
This essay begins with the assumption that Richard Rorty means everything he says; its question, however, is ultimately why he says everything he means. Politically speaking, for someone who is unconstrained by metaphysical concerns about the “right” or the “good,” what counts is not being right, but being successful. Hence my question for Rorty is simply this: why be honest when deception might be more effective? I contend that in the context of…
Catholic and Protestant Social Discourse and the American Welfare State
John Tropman (1986, 1995), among others, develops the notion of a Catholic ethic which he juxtaposes to the more traditional (at least in America) notion of the Protestant ethic as theorized by Max Weber (1905). Using his work and discourse analysis as our starting points, we attempt to construct our own complimentary conception of the Catholic ethic through a series of readings of historical documents and make a case for comprehending the genera…
Fugitive Theory
The group known as the Southern Agrarians came out of Vanderbilt University in the wake of the 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. In response to attacks on the South and Southern culture, these scholars and poets-including Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Andrew Lytle, Frank Owsley, and others-turned their attention to the defense of the South and its political tradition in numerous essays and books. Christ…
Welfare Reform, Mississippi Style
Through an examination of the implementation of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in the state of Mississippi, we explore the adequacy of traditional two‐actor principal‐agent theory. Using this as our lens, we suggest that the choices made by Mississippi in the area of welfare reform to privatize much of the work and to add several layers to the existing principal‐agent relationship substantially reduced accountability an…
The Southern Agrarians, Progress, and the Tragic Voice
In this argument the Agrarian role in the American political drama is not necessarily the specific one implied by the dichotomy: “Agrarian versus Industrial” (Twelve Southerners [1930] 1977, xxxviii), or the policist pronouncement“... that the culture of the soil is the best... and that therefore it should have the economic preference and enlist the maximum number of workers”(xlvii). Instead, this is an attempt to place them in a role similar to …
The Blues Voice of Houston Baker, Jr. as Political Theory
The work of Houston Baker, Jr. in Afro-American literary studies is almost unparalleled. Baker argues that in America there is a distinctive American cultural language, a vernacular, only black Americans share in by virtue of their race. This distinctive language is the result, he argues, of their condition with regard to the larger American culture and society. Baker claims that because of the "special circumstances" (chattel slavery and continu…
The Myth of Liberal Individualism . Colin Bird
The Anti-Federalists and Early American Political Thought
Journal Article The Anti-Federalists and Early American Political Thought. By Christopher M. Duncan. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995. xxvi, 228pp. $30.00, ISBN0-87580-189-7.) Get access John Howe John Howe University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Page 1383, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952932 P…
The Anti-Federalists and Early American Political Thought
Civic Virtue and Self-Interest
In this Review in 1993 Shelley Burtt critiqued contemporary republican theorists who urge a reinvigorated citizenry steeped in the ideal of civic virtue. Christopher Duncan finds the essence of Burtt's argument to be that such a revival is not feasible given the level of self-sacrifice required from citizens. He suggests, however, that contemporary republican theorists, like their ancient predecessor Aristotle, are not calling for altruism or the…
Men of a Different Faith
The Anti-Federalists lost their fight against the Constitution, and for a century thereafter were treated as little more than a footnote in American history. Early in this century, Progressive historians resurrected the Anti-Federalists and marshalled them in support of classbased interpretations of American politics. By mid-century, "consensus" historians were at work again on the Anti-Federalists, recasting them as pale figures more like than n…
Plato's Paradox? Guardians and Philosopher-Kings
For centuries scholars have engaged in interpreting the meaning of Plato's Republic . In this exchange, Peter Steinberger and Christopher Duncan debate the role of guardians and philosopher-kings in the ancient city. This controversy is ignited by Steinberger's essay on Platonic rulers in the December 1989 issue of this Review
Catholicism, Poverty and the Pursuit of Happiness
The following article is divided into three substantive sections. In the first section, “ontology, poverty and Catholicism,” I will attempt to lay out the basic parameters of a Catholic approach to the human person and the subsequent implications of that approach for understanding the question of poverty. In the second section, “liberalism, poverty and welfare in the U.S.,” I will juxtapose the Catholic approach with what is arguably the dominate…
Catholic and Protestant Social Discourse and the American Welfare State
John Tropman (1986, 1995), among others, develops the notion of a Catholic ethic which he juxtaposes to the more traditional (at least in America) notion of the Protestant ethic as theorized by Max Weber (1905). Using his work and discourse analysis as our starting points, we attempt to construct our own complimentary conception of the Catholic ethic through a series of readings of historical documents and make a case for comprehending the genera…
The Blues Voice of Houston Baker, Jr. as Political Theory
The work of Houston Baker, Jr. in Afro-American literary studies is almost unparalleled. Baker argues that in America there is a distinctive American cultural language, a vernacular, only black Americans share in by virtue of their race. This distinctive language is the result, he argues, of their condition with regard to the larger American culture and society. Baker claims that because of the "special circumstances" (chattel slavery and continu…
Civic Virtue and Self-Interest
In this Review in 1993 Shelley Burtt critiqued contemporary republican theorists who urge a reinvigorated citizenry steeped in the ideal of civic virtue. Christopher Duncan finds the essence of Burtt's argument to be that such a revival is not feasible given the level of self-sacrifice required from citizens. He suggests, however, that contemporary republican theorists, like their ancient predecessor Aristotle, are not calling for altruism or the…
Plato's Paradox? Guardians and Philosopher-Kings
For centuries scholars have engaged in interpreting the meaning of Plato's Republic . In this exchange, Peter Steinberger and Christopher Duncan debate the role of guardians and philosopher-kings in the ancient city. This controversy is ignited by Steinberger's essay on Platonic rulers in the December 1989 issue of this Review
Men of a Different Faith
The Anti-Federalists lost their fight against the Constitution, and for a century thereafter were treated as little more than a footnote in American history. Early in this century, Progressive historians resurrected the Anti-Federalists and marshalled them in support of classbased interpretations of American politics. By mid-century, "consensus" historians were at work again on the Anti-Federalists, recasting them as pale figures more like than n…
Civic Virtue and Self-Interest
In this Review in 1993 Shelley Burtt critiqued contemporary republican theorists who urge a reinvigorated citizenry steeped in the ideal of civic virtue. Christopher Duncan finds the essence of Burtt's argument to be that such a revival is not feasible given the level of self-sacrifice required from citizens. He suggests, however, that contemporary republican theorists, like their ancient predecessor Aristotle, are not calling for altruism or the…
The Anti-Federalists and Early American Political Thought
The Anti-Federalists and Early American Political Thought
Journal Article The Anti-Federalists and Early American Political Thought. By Christopher M. Duncan. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995. xxvi, 228pp. $30.00, ISBN0-87580-189-7.) Get access John Howe John Howe University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Page 1383, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952932 P…
The Blues Voice of Houston Baker, Jr. as Political Theory
The work of Houston Baker, Jr. in Afro-American literary studies is almost unparalleled. Baker argues that in America there is a distinctive American cultural language, a vernacular, only black Americans share in by virtue of their race. This distinctive language is the result, he argues, of their condition with regard to the larger American culture and society. Baker claims that because of the "special circumstances" (chattel slavery and continu…
The Myth of Liberal Individualism . Colin Bird
The Southern Agrarians, Progress, and the Tragic Voice
In this argument the Agrarian role in the American political drama is not necessarily the specific one implied by the dichotomy: “Agrarian versus Industrial” (Twelve Southerners [1930] 1977, xxxviii), or the policist pronouncement“... that the culture of the soil is the best... and that therefore it should have the economic preference and enlist the maximum number of workers”(xlvii). Instead, this is an attempt to place them in a role similar to …
Fugitive Theory
The group known as the Southern Agrarians came out of Vanderbilt University in the wake of the 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. In response to attacks on the South and Southern culture, these scholars and poets-including Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Andrew Lytle, Frank Owsley, and others-turned their attention to the defense of the South and its political tradition in numerous essays and books. Christ…
Welfare Reform, Mississippi Style
Through an examination of the implementation of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in the state of Mississippi, we explore the adequacy of traditional two‐actor principal‐agent theory. Using this as our lens, we suggest that the choices made by Mississippi in the area of welfare reform to privatize much of the work and to add several layers to the existing principal‐agent relationship substantially reduced accountability an…
Catholic and Protestant Social Discourse and the American Welfare State
John Tropman (1986, 1995), among others, develops the notion of a Catholic ethic which he juxtaposes to the more traditional (at least in America) notion of the Protestant ethic as theorized by Max Weber (1905). Using his work and discourse analysis as our starting points, we attempt to construct our own complimentary conception of the Catholic ethic through a series of readings of historical documents and make a case for comprehending the genera…
Lincoln's Theocentric Turn
In this essay I argue that Abraham Lincoln turned to a theocentric discourse to conceptualize the American Civil War. I attempt to address why he used a theocentric approach to the conceptualization of political problems and what the relationship is between that theocentric approach and his political principles, inspired policy outcomes, and the subsequent nature of American political culture and politics. It is my argument that Lincoln used a th…
A Question for Richard Rorty
This essay begins with the assumption that Richard Rorty means everything he says; its question, however, is ultimately why he says everything he means. Politically speaking, for someone who is unconstrained by metaphysical concerns about the “right” or the “good,” what counts is not being right, but being successful. Hence my question for Rorty is simply this: why be honest when deception might be more effective? I contend that in the context of…
Catholicism, Poverty and the Pursuit of Happiness
The following article is divided into three substantive sections. In the first section, “ontology, poverty and Catholicism,” I will attempt to lay out the basic parameters of a Catholic approach to the human person and the subsequent implications of that approach for understanding the question of poverty. In the second section, “liberalism, poverty and welfare in the U.S.,” I will juxtapose the Catholic approach with what is arguably the dominate…
Donald Trump, Political Theology and the Religion of Power
In this article I discuss a dangerous subtext that lies beneath Trump’s visible lack of serious Christian witness. It provides the fuel to a heretical fire that is poised to engulf those Christians whom I will suggest have quite literally made a deal with the Devil without realizing it. My argument is not that Trump is just a radically imperfect vessel for what may be legitimate public policy positions, but rather that he represents a robustly id…
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