Jean Yarbrough
Biographic Data
| ID | 379728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean Yarbrough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Yarbrough |
| SIGNATURE | YARBROUGH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tocqueville and Lincoln on Slavery
Alexis de Tocqueville and Abraham Lincoln held nearly identical views on the evils of American slavery but used different arguments against it. In Democracy in America, Tocqueville analyzed slavery chiefly from the standpoint of material self-interest. Although he occasionally condemned slavery as a violation of the laws and rights of humanity, he never explained his meaning or mentioned the Declaration. Tocqueville adopted a similar approach in …
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…
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
Race and the Moral Foundation of the American Republic: Another Look at the Declaration and the Notes on Virginia
Rethinking “The Federalist's View of Federalism”
The Federalist does not always explicate the principle of federalism embodied in the U.S. Constitution. In some places The Federalist exaggerates its significance; in other, there is silence. What emerges from a careful reading of The Federalist is less a description of federalism as the framers invented it than Publius' preference for a far more consolidated national government than intended by most of the framers in Philadelphia. In interpretin…
The Family in Political Thought. Jean Bethke Elshtain
Vita Activa and Vita Contemplativa: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Political Thought in The Life of the Mind
Hannah Arendt's last work, The Life of the Mind, was published in 1978 in two volumes entitled, Thinking and Willing. She planned to write a third volume, “Judging,” and in fact had just begun writing it the day she died. Instead of the final book, “Judging,” Willing, the second volume of The Life of the Mind, contains excerpts from her lectures on Kant's political philosophy and theory of judgment given at the New School for Social Research in 1…
Republicanism Reconsidered: Some Thoughts on the Foundation and Preservation of the American Republic
Just when the equation of republican government with liberal representative democracy had finally taken hold in the academic community, a new group of scholars began to emphasize the differences between them. Drawing upon the writings of earlier republican theorists, they argued that republican government traditionally depended upon political participation and virtue to preserve freedom. In contrast, liberal democracy relied upon representation a…
Thoughts on the Federalist's View of Representation
Frequent criticism of our political institutions as unrepresentative leads the author of this article to examine the Founding Fathers' understanding of representation as expressed in the Federalist. By analyzing Nos. 35, 36 and 57 in addition to the often discussed No. 10 she makes an important contribution to the clarification of this controversial issue. Her position is that the Federalist was more concerned with the "refinement" of the people'…
Federalism in the Foundation and Preservation of the American Republic
Federalism in the Foundation and Preservation of the American Republic Jean Yarbrough Jean Yarbrough University of ConnecticutGroton for Peter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 6, Issue 3, Summer 1976, Pages 43–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038404 Published: 01 January 1976
Hannah Arendt
Republicanism Reconsidered: Some Thoughts on the Foundation and Preservation of the American Republic
Just when the equation of republican government with liberal representative democracy had finally taken hold in the academic community, a new group of scholars began to emphasize the differences between them. Drawing upon the writings of earlier republican theorists, they argued that republican government traditionally depended upon political participation and virtue to preserve freedom. In contrast, liberal democracy relied upon representation a…
Race and the Moral Foundation of the American Republic: Another Look at the Declaration and the Notes on Virginia
Vita Activa and Vita Contemplativa: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Political Thought in The Life of the Mind
Hannah Arendt's last work, The Life of the Mind, was published in 1978 in two volumes entitled, Thinking and Willing. She planned to write a third volume, “Judging,” and in fact had just begun writing it the day she died. Instead of the final book, “Judging,” Willing, the second volume of The Life of the Mind, contains excerpts from her lectures on Kant's political philosophy and theory of judgment given at the New School for Social Research in 1…
Thoughts on the Federalist's View of Representation
Frequent criticism of our political institutions as unrepresentative leads the author of this article to examine the Founding Fathers' understanding of representation as expressed in the Federalist. By analyzing Nos. 35, 36 and 57 in addition to the often discussed No. 10 she makes an important contribution to the clarification of this controversial issue. Her position is that the Federalist was more concerned with the "refinement" of the people'…
Federalism in the Foundation and Preservation of the American Republic
Federalism in the Foundation and Preservation of the American Republic Jean Yarbrough Jean Yarbrough University of ConnecticutGroton for Peter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 6, Issue 3, Summer 1976, Pages 43–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038404 Published: 01 January 1976
Hannah Arendt
Republicanism Reconsidered: Some Thoughts on the Foundation and Preservation of the American Republic
Just when the equation of republican government with liberal representative democracy had finally taken hold in the academic community, a new group of scholars began to emphasize the differences between them. Drawing upon the writings of earlier republican theorists, they argued that republican government traditionally depended upon political participation and virtue to preserve freedom. In contrast, liberal democracy relied upon representation a…
Thoughts on the Federalist's View of Representation
Frequent criticism of our political institutions as unrepresentative leads the author of this article to examine the Founding Fathers' understanding of representation as expressed in the Federalist. By analyzing Nos. 35, 36 and 57 in addition to the often discussed No. 10 she makes an important contribution to the clarification of this controversial issue. Her position is that the Federalist was more concerned with the "refinement" of the people'…
Vita Activa and Vita Contemplativa: Reflections on Hannah Arendt's Political Thought in The Life of the Mind
Hannah Arendt's last work, The Life of the Mind, was published in 1978 in two volumes entitled, Thinking and Willing. She planned to write a third volume, “Judging,” and in fact had just begun writing it the day she died. Instead of the final book, “Judging,” Willing, the second volume of The Life of the Mind, contains excerpts from her lectures on Kant's political philosophy and theory of judgment given at the New School for Social Research in 1…
The Family in Political Thought. Jean Bethke Elshtain
Rethinking “The Federalist's View of Federalism”
The Federalist does not always explicate the principle of federalism embodied in the U.S. Constitution. In some places The Federalist exaggerates its significance; in other, there is silence. What emerges from a careful reading of The Federalist is less a description of federalism as the framers invented it than Publius' preference for a far more consolidated national government than intended by most of the framers in Philadelphia. In interpretin…
Race and the Moral Foundation of the American Republic: Another Look at the Declaration and the Notes on Virginia
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 and Lincoln on Slavery
Alexis de Tocqueville and Abraham Lincoln held nearly identical views on the evils of American slavery but used different arguments against it. In Democracy in America, Tocqueville analyzed slavery chiefly from the standpoint of material self-interest. Although he occasionally condemned slavery as a violation of the laws and rights of humanity, he never explained his meaning or mentioned the Declaration. Tocqueville adopted a similar approach in …
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…
American Constitutional Law and Politics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works)