Producing a Reconciliation of Disinterestedness and Commerce”
The Political Rhetoric of Education in the Early Republic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9883231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rita Koganzon (0000-0001-7744-3270, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403-429 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Education Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2680 • E-ISSN: 1748-5959 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1748-5959.2012.00405.x |
| OpenAlex | W1540084663 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
One of the vexing ambiguities in the historiography of the civic republican tradition has been just when and how republicanism ended. The American Revolution itself, according to Gordon Wood and J. G. A. Pocock, was waged for republican principles, but the government established in its wake represented what Wood called “the end of classical politics,” abandoning virtue in the name of commerce and liberal individualism. By the close of the eighteenth century, Pocock writes, “A condition of thought ... in which a bourgeois ideology, a civic morality for the market man, was ardently desired but apparently not to be found.” Later historians sought to extend republicanism's life into the nineteenth century, identifying figures and institutions who held fast to the tradition against the prevailing commercial and industrial winds, while others have taken the ambiguity of republicanism's end to suggest that no such coherent worldview existed in the United States, which was from the outset a liberal project employing only an occasional and misleading republican vocabulary. Even Wood, whose Radicalism of the American Revolution specifically set out to narrate the transformation of American political ideology from the Revolution to the ascent of the Jeffersonians, offers a general account of shifting rhetorical emphases—from virtue to equality, the common good to self-interest—but not the contours of this shift in any specific realm of American life
Aesthetics · Bourgeoisie · Civic virtue · Ideology · Individualism · Liberalism · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Virtue · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence
The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin
Education in the forming of American society
American Education
On the Education of Youth
Ancients and Axioms
Between past and future
Benjamin Franklin's Vision of a Republican Political Economy for America
Commerce and Character
Rearing the Republican Child
From Belief into Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |