Lincoln's Political Thought

George Kateb

Published by Harvard University Press 2015

Lincoln's Political Thought

George Kateb

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674735873

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About this book

At the center of Lincoln’s political thought and career is an intense passion for equality that runs so deep in the speeches, messages, and letters that it has the force of religious conviction for Lincoln. George Kateb examines these writings to reveal that this passion explains Lincoln’s reverence for both the Constitution and the Union.

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Kateb George :

George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, Princeton University.

Reviews

It is a delicate moral exercise, Kateb’s attempt to affirm Lincoln’s greatness while nonetheless chastening our idolatry and leaving us with a troubling image of ourselves. There are few writers since Emerson who have even attempted this sort of thing, let alone succeeded at it…Kateb refuses to simplify. The words in his book both bleed and provoke; his double-edged honesty cuts repeatedly against his own druthers, as he says what idolaters and debunkers alike wish not to hear…George Kateb has added a splendid and bracing chapter to [Emerson’s] Representative Men.
-- Jeffrey Stout Commonweal

Unforgiving and original.
-- David Bromwich Reuters

An erudite work that gently unravels the great man’s distortions and political expediency…The book is compelling throughout.
-- Kirkus Reviews

Kateb is the most interesting and important philosopher of liberalism alive today, and whatever he says is worth thinking about. Although I disagree, sometimes heatedly, with many of the arguments here, it’s also a book I’m going to continue to think about, a book I’m going to have with me for a very long time.
-- John Burt, author of Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism

I have read quite a few Lincoln books over the past few years, and Lincoln’s Political Thought is the most enjoyable. For those who know Kateb’s work – and I have been a fan of his for a long time – all of his characteristic flourishes are here on display.
-- Steven Smith, editor of The Writings of Abraham Lincoln

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
1. The Period of Lincoln Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Lincoln as a Writer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. Lincoln’s Political Religion of Human Equality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. Race and Human Equality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5. Lincoln and the Constitution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
6. Lincoln’s Doctrine of Military Necessity in the Civil War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
7. Lincoln’s World Outlook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Audience: General/trade;College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 224

eBook

Published: February 2, 2015
ISBN: 9780674735873