Common Sense : : A Political History / / Sophia Rosenfeld.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
• VerfasserIn: Rosenfeld, Sophia,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 14 halftones

Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine's vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense-the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate-remains a powerful political ideal, uti...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Ghost of Common Sense
• Chapter 2. Everyman's Perception of the World
• Chapter 3. The Radical Uses of Bon Sens
• Chapter 4. Building a Common Sense Republic
• Chapter 5. Making War on Revolutionary Reason
• Chapter 6. Königsberg to New York
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index