ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

Common Sense : A Political History.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (362 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674061286
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Common SenseDDC classification:
  • 320.01/1
LOC classification:
  • JA83 .R724 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Ghost of Common Sense: London, 1688- 1739 -- 2. Everyman's Perception of the World: Aberdeen, 1758- 1770 -- 3. The Radical Uses of Bon Sens: Amsterdam, 1760- 1775 -- 4. Building a Common Sense Republic: Philadelphia, 1776 -- 5. Making War on Revolutionary Reason: Paris, 1790- 1792 -- 6. Königsberg to New York: The Fate of Common Sense in the Modern World -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Ghost of Common Sense: London, 1688- 1739 -- 2. Everyman's Perception of the World: Aberdeen, 1758- 1770 -- 3. The Radical Uses of Bon Sens: Amsterdam, 1760- 1775 -- 4. Building a Common Sense Republic: Philadelphia, 1776 -- 5. Making War on Revolutionary Reason: Paris, 1790- 1792 -- 6. Königsberg to New York: The Fate of Common Sense in the Modern World -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.