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    Michael Oakeshott and the conversation of modern political thought.Luke Philip Plotica - 2015 - Albany: State University of New York Press.
    Introduction : situating oakeshott -- Language, practice, and individual agency -- Individuality between tradition and contingency -- Imagining the modern state -- Towards a conversational democratic ethos -- Conclusion : hearing voices.
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    Thoreau and the Politics of Ordinary Actions.Luke Philip Plotica - 2016 - Political Theory 44 (4):470-495.
    Many regard Henry David Thoreau as an apolitical or even antipolitical thinker, concerned above all with his personal moral purity, and thus unresponsive and irresponsible towards the society in which he lived. Contrary to this received interpretation, I argue that Thoreau’s life and work articulates a robust and complex doctrine of intersubjective responsibility and political agency. Although he denies individual responsibility to institutions and other persons, he soberly embraces individual responsibility for one’s role in shaping and maintaining the arrangements of (...)
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    A Different Legal Conservatism.Luke Philip Plotica - 2018 - Contemporary Pragmatism 15 (4):515-524.
    In Conservatism and Pragmatism, Seth Vannatta posits and explores several major conceptual and practical affinities between classical pragmatism and conservatism. Characterizing both as essentially methods rather than ideologies, he argues that the two ought to be understood as mutually supportive and corrective, and that they conjointly supply an especially robust set of intellectual resources relevant to contemporary moral, political, and legal concerns. This essay critically examines Vannatta’s marriage of conservatism and pragmatism in the realm of legal theory. It argues that (...)
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    Singing Oneself or Living Deliberately: Whitman and Thoreau on Individuality and Democracy.Luke Philip Plotica - 2017 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 53 (4):601.
    It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.The average man of a land at last only is important.In 1826, nearly a decade before Alexis de Tocqueville published his epochal analysis of American individualism in Democracy in America, Ralph Waldo Emerson aptly remarked that nineteenth-century Americans lived in “the age of the first person singular.”1 Throughout the century American society was characterized by a “heightened sense of the importance of (...)
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