Reading Obama : : Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition / / James T. Kloppenberg.
Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's commitmen...
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Kloppenberg, James T., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Reading Obama : Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition / James T. Kloppenberg. With a New preface by the author Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (344 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Education of Barack Obama -- Chapter 2: From Universalism to Particularism -- Chapter 3: Obama's American History -- Conclusion. Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition -- Essay on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's commitments to deliberation and experimentation derive from sustained engagement with American democratic thought. In a new preface, Kloppenberg explains why Obama has stuck with his commitment to compromise in the first three years of his presidency, despite the criticism it has provoked. Reading Obama traces the origins of his ideas and establishes him as the most penetrating political thinker elected to the presidency in the past century. Kloppenberg demonstrates the influences that have shaped Obama's distinctive worldview, including Nietzsche and Niebuhr, Ellison and Rawls, and recent theorists engaged in debates about feminism, critical race theory, and cultural norms. Examining Obama's views on the Constitution, slavery and the Civil War, the New Deal, and the civil rights movement, Kloppenberg shows Obama's sophisticated understanding of American history. Obama's interest in compromise, reasoned public debate, and the patient nurturing of civility is a sign of strength, not weakness, Kloppenberg argues. He locates its roots in Madison, Lincoln, and especially in the philosophical pragmatism of William James and John Dewey, which nourished generations of American progressives, black and white, female and male, through much of the twentieth century, albeit with mixed results. Reading Obama reveals the sources of Obama's commitment to democratic deliberation: the books he has read, the visionaries who have inspired him, the social movements and personal struggles that have shaped his thinking. Kloppenberg shows that Obama's positions on social justice, religion, race, family, and America's role in the world do not stem from a desire to please everyone but from deeply rooted--although currently unfashionable--convictions about how a democracy must deal with difference and conflict. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Political culture United States. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691154336 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400842032 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400842032 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400842032.jpg |
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