Common sense [electronic resource] : a political history / Sophia Rosenfeld.
2011
JA83 .R724 2011eb
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Common sense [electronic resource] : a political history / Sophia Rosenfeld.
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9780674061286 electronic book
9780674057814
9780674057814
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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English
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1 online resource (337 p., [14] p. of plates) : ill.
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JA83 .R724 2011eb
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320.01/1
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Common Sense reveals a political ideal so fundamental to American politics that we are unaware of its power and its myriad uses. Sophia Rosenfeld shows how common sense--the wisdom of ordinary people, self-evident truths--has been used to justify all political extremes, with a history that is anything but commonsensical.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The ghost of common sense: London, 1688-1739
Everyman's perception of the world: Aberdeen, 1758-1770
The radical uses of bon sens: Amsterdam, 1760-1775
Building a common sense republic: Philadelphia, 1776
Making war on revolutionary reason: Paris, 1790-1792
Konigsberg to New York: the fate of common sense in the modern world.
Everyman's perception of the world: Aberdeen, 1758-1770
The radical uses of bon sens: Amsterdam, 1760-1775
Building a common sense republic: Philadelphia, 1776
Making war on revolutionary reason: Paris, 1790-1792
Konigsberg to New York: the fate of common sense in the modern world.