Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson.

By:

Nicolaisen, Peter

Contributor(s):

Spahn, Hannah

Material type: Text

TextSeries: American Studies - A Monograph SeriesPublication details: Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

3825374149
9783825374143

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson.DDC classification:

973.4

LOC classification:

E331

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; Preface; HANNAH SPAHN Introduction; GORDON S. WOOD The Invention of the United States; ARMIN MATTES "Une et indivisible"? Thomas Jefferson and Destutt de Tracy on the Idea of the Nation; THOMAS CLARK "Beware the wit of Voltaire": Benjamin Rush and the Limits of American Cosmopolitanism; MAURIZIO VALSANIA Beyond Particularism: Thomas Jefferson' s Republican Community; HANNAH SPAHN Cosmopolitan Imperfections: Jefferson, Nationhood, and the Republic of Letters; GAYE WILSON Thomas Jefferson and Creating an Image for a New Nation.

FRANCIS D. COGLIANO A "Philosophical vedette": William Dunbar, Thomas Jefferson, and the Republic of LettersCATRIN GERSDORF Early American Cool: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the Affective Foundation of Republican Government; PHILIPP ZIESCHE American Exceptionalism: Cosmopolitanism by Another Name; PETER S. ONUF Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson: Epilogue; Contributors.

Summary: 'Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson' explores the origins of modern conceptions of world citizenship and the nation in Jeffersonian America. In today's discussions of a transnational world, cosmopolitanism tends to be understood as a potential antidote to problematic aspects of nationhood - indeed, cosmopolitanism is often treated as a direct antonym of nationalism. From the perspective of the eighteenth century, however, such an understanding would hardly be self-evident: for Thomas Jefferson and many of his peers in the late Enlightenment, it was possible to conceive of t.

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'Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson' explores the origins of modern conceptions of world citizenship and the nation in Jeffersonian America. In today's discussions of a transnational world, cosmopolitanism tends to be understood as a potential antidote to problematic aspects of nationhood - indeed, cosmopolitanism is often treated as a direct antonym of nationalism. From the perspective of the eighteenth century, however, such an understanding would hardly be self-evident: for Thomas Jefferson and many of his peers in the late Enlightenment, it was possible to conceive of t.

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