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Garagiola, Meredith Noël Searing Donald. « Imposing law and order intolerant idealism in British and American foreign policy / ». Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2334.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Political Science, Concentration TransAtlantic Studies." Discipline: Political Science; Department/School: Political Science.
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Higashikubo, Kevin. « Man with a Ghost : Randolph Bourne's Radical Cultural Idealism ». Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1617025465545427.
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Feldt, Tommy. « Idealism and Guilt in the Forest : Cooper, Emerson and the American Wilderness Myth ». Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94318.
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James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans has had a remarkable impact on American culture and modern critics have often viewed it as a myth of America itself. Cooper’s highly romanticized narrative has partly been seen as the less-than-historical “wish-fulfillment” (D.H. Lawrence) of an author who socialized in the salons of New York and Paris but dreamt of noble savages in the untamed American landscape but also as an expression of America’s difficulties in coming to terms with its conquest of the Indians. As a complement to these views, this essay attempts to show that the character Natty Bumppo, or Hawkeye, represents the new nation’s ambivalent relationship with the surrounding wilderness and therefore helplessly torn between vastly different ideals. On one hand, Hawkeye appears to show us a less confrontational way of relating to the wilderness: one that implies the possibility for man to transform himself and live in spiritual unity with nature—a notion that would make Hawkeye the forerunner of the ideals put forth in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1836 essay “Nature”. But Hawkeye’s relationship with the woods and the Indians is complex, self-contradictory and filled with deep inner struggles, and he is at other times a merciless figure who divides Indians into good and bad. As such, his very character seems to be the embodiment of an American identity that is highly conflicted. In addition to examining the novel’s depiction of Hawkeye, the Indians and the forest, the essay offers a wide historical perspective of the ideas of nature that were present or just emerging in Cooper’s time, including those expressed by Emerson, as well as their Romantic and Christian influences. By understanding how Americans struggled to deal with feelings of guilt and sorrow in the face of the perceived decline of the wilderness in the 19th century, we might better understand the persisting importance of Cooper’s work.
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Tirak, Lita M. « The American Grotesque : Free-Thought Idealism in Edward Bliss Foote's "Science in Story" ». W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626613.
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Ruano, de la Haza Jonathan. « The Rise of the United States' Airfield Empire in Latin America, North Africa, the Middle East, and Southern Asia (1927-1945). How America's Political Leaders Achieved Mastery over the Global Commons and Created the "American Century" ». Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23557.
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This dissertation makes the argument that the Franklin Roosevelt administration (1933-1945) embarked upon a global hegemonic project to transform the United States into a world empire and bring about the "New World Order." In addition, the expansion of U.S. commercial and military air routes was seen as instrumental to the realization of this project.
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McPherson, Shelley. « Native policy making in North America : the unresolved conflict between economic desires and political idealism ». Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60469.
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The thesis explores the practical, moral and intellectual forces shaping native policy making in North America. It is argued that white society is struggling with an unresolved dialectic between its economic desires and its political idealism and that this conflict is expressed in native policy making as a simultaneous affirmation and denial of aboriginal rights. This theme is traced comparatively through Canadian and American native policy making histories from 1763 to 1990, focusing on three major policy areas: Indian dispossession, Indian political incorporation and Indian economic integration.
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Vines, Jacob L. « Encounters with the American Prairie : Realism, Idealism, and the Search for the Authentic Plains in the Nineteenth Century ». Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2511.
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The Great Plains are prevalent among the literature of the nineteenth century, but receive hardly a single representation among the landscapes of the Hudson River School. This is certainly surprising; the public was teeming with interest in the Midwest and yet the principal landscape painters who aimed to represent and idealize a burgeoning America offered hardly a glance past the Mississippi River. This geographical silence is the result of a tension between idealistic and empirical representations of the land, one echoed in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Prairie, Washington Irving’s A Tour on the Prairies, and Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Margaret Fuller’s more physical and intimate Transcendentalism unifies this tension in a manner that heralds the rise of the Luminists and the plains-scapes of Worthington Whittredge.
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Kazmierczak, Marcin. « La metafísica idealista en los relatos de Jorge Luis Borges ». Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/4860.
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Uno de los objetivos fundamentales de esta tesis es el de investigar las diferentes fuentes filosóficas y místicas presentes en la obra de Borges (sobre todo Heráclito, Platón, Plotino, Berkeley, Hume, Schopenhauer y, a través de él, el hinduismo y el budismo, Nietsche, la cábala etc.) y, paralelamente, observar de qué manera el autor efectúa su dramatización literaria de diferentes conceptos procedentes de estos sistemas filosóficos. A continuación se efectúa una mirada sintética hacia el conjunto de las fuentes filosóficas, la ual lleva a la conclusión de que prevalecen las vertientes idealistas por encima de las materialistas y objetivistas. Ello, sin embargo, no significa que a Borges se puede llamar "idealista. El idealismo que sin duda ejerce una poderosa atracción estética sobre Borges, sin embargo, no es para él más que una etapa mental en su itinerario especulativo, que le sirve para superar el materialismo pero que, posteriormente, también se ve superada por un creciente nihilismo y escepticismo.
One of the major objectives of this thesis is the investigation of a variety of the philosophical and mystical sources detectable in Borges (above all : Heraclitus, Plato, Plotinus, Berkeley, Hume, Schopenhauer and, through the latter, the Hinduism and the Buddhism, Nietsche, the Kabbalah and others) parallel to the observation and description of the way the writer carries out his extraordinary literary transformation and dramatization of the concepts deriving from these philosophical systems.
Consequently, the attention is focused on the totality of the metaphysical sources, which guides to the conclusion that the idealistic currents predominate clearly over the materialistic and the objectivist ones. However, this does not mean that it is legitimate to call Borges an idealist. The idealism undoubtedly does exercise a powerful aesthetic attraction on the writer, yet, it is but a "mental stage" in his speculative itinerary, thanks to which he overcomes the materialism but which, on his own turn, is overcome by nihilism and skeptisism being at a constant growth throughout Borges' literary career.
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Woolner, David B. « The frustrated idealists, Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden and the search for Anglo-American cooperation, 1933-1938 ». Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq30419.pdf.
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Woolner, David B. « The frustrated idealists : Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden and the search for Anglo-American cooperation, 1933-1938 / ». Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=34482.
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This study involves an examination of Anglo-American relations between the years 1933 and 1938 through the policies of U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, and British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden. It is based on the thesis that both of these foreign ministers believed strongly in the need to establish a "special relationship" between Great Britain and the United States as a means to counter the growing world economic and political crisis that developed during the 1930s, but that in spite of these sentiments, they failed in this effort. This work explores the reasons for this failure.The study begins by noting the widespread expectation, following the 1932 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that the onset of a new American Administration under the leadership of Roosevelt and Hull would lead to closer transatlantic ties. It then goes on to explore Eden and Hull's efforts to establish a new economic and security relationship between the two powers through the workings of the World Economic Conference, the Geneva Disarmament Talks, the London Naval Conference, and the negotiation of an Anglo-American trade agreement. It then traces Eden and Hull's reaction to the outbreak of hostilities in Abyssinia, Spain and China, and notes how the increasing likelihood of a world war led to an intensification of their efforts to find a vehicle of cooperation.
The work then closes by examining the circumstances which led to Eden's resignation, and the successful negotiation of the Anglo-American Trade Agreement. In the latter case, however, it is argued that the trade agreement had little effect on the behavior of the fascist states, and hence proved ineffective as a means to stop the drift towards war. The study then concludes by reiterating the argument that both men shared in the belief that it was in their respective country's best interests to pursue closer transatlantic ties. It also concludes that they each carried certain idealistic notions about the benefits which might accrue from such a pursuit, as each felt that even the mere appearance of Anglo-American solidarity would give serious pause to the dictators and thus further advance the cause of peace. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Stratton, Sara Ann. « An embattled idealism land reform, the Alliance for Progress, and the struggle for social justice in American foreign policy ». Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0026/NQ33553.pdf.
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Poag, Frederic. « The Open Door, Dollar Diplomacy, and the Self-Strengthening Movement : The Birth of American Idealist Imperialism in China, 1890 - 1912 ». Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3363.
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American Foreign Policy at the outset of the Twentieth century evolved from a realist to an idealist position as the United States transitioned to an imperial power. This ideal framework was formed in the crucible of China during the Spheres of Influence and the Open Door. The US had to play delicate game of helping China to maintain their territorial, and administrative integrity while at the same time protecting their newly acquired overseas interests against more established imperial actors. While there were many missteps, and failures during this transition perhaps the most the important result was the change toward the approach of US foreign policy. Not only did the United States have to balance realist geo-political goals, but it had to define what an imperial United States looked like. In a sense the United States was starting from scratch, processing to a completely different game and in order to be successful it had evolve.
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Siedberg, Marie. « Do ideologies matter ? : Idea analysis of foreign policy in the United States of America ». Thesis, Växjö University, School of Social Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2516.
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The aim of this essay is to clarify if there is an ideological difference within the political area of foreign policy of the United States. The question that will be answered is: Is the American foreign policy coloured by different ideologies, or has that area of politics become an arena without ideology differences?
In order to answer the question, the method used in this essay is idea analysis using ideal types as analytical instrument. The texts that are being analysed are the State of the Union Addresses of four American presidents. The presidents are Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton and each president give this speech once a year. The presidents are chosen due to the fact that their presidencies follow each other and are as recently in time as possible.
After analysing all of the speeches and considering the surrounding circumstances, like the Cold War, I came to the conclusion that there is no ideological difference within foreign policy of the United States of America. Some areas of foreign policy, however, show more or less connotations to either idealism or realism. Even tough ideology plays a part; there is no difference between the liberal party and the conservative party.
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Doughty, James. « Pragmatism and Christian Realism in the Political Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr : An Analysis and Evolution of American Liberalism ». Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017BOR30026/document.
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Ce travail visera à analyser la pensée politique du théologien et politologue américain Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), et plus particulièrement la façon dont le Pragmatisme a pu influencer son oeuvre. Critique à l’égard de l’idéalisme libéral de John Dewey (1859-1952), et plus spécifiquement à l’encontre de l’optimisme dont faisait preuve le pragmatisme politique vis-à-vis de la nature de l’homme, Niebuhr n’arriva pourtant pas à échapper à l’influence du pragmatisme, d’où le sujet de ce travail de recherche : les influences du Pragmatisme politique, celui de John Dewey plus particulièrement, sur l’oeuvre de Reinhold Niebuhr et sur son réalisme chrétien. Cette thèse rassemblera les grandes oeuvres des deux penseurs pour comparer la pensée politique de chacun. Selon Niebuhr, la pensée de Dewey n’était qu’une continuation de l’idéalisme des Lumières ; Dewey restait figé dans un optimisme injustifié à propos de la vision globalement bonne de la nature humaine. Néanmoins, malgré cette critique, Niebuhr fut influencé par ce dernier. L’objectif de cette thèse est de souligner ces influences sur le travail de Niebuhr afin de montrer que la pensée niebuhrienne est un prolongement de la pensée pragmatiste de Dewey, démontré par le Pragmatisme chrétien, et que Niebuhr fait partie du courant de pensée libérale malgré lui. Au mépris des différences fondamentales entre les deux hommes, nous allons donc tenter de démontrer que Niebuhr s’inscrit dans une tradition intellectuelle typiquement américaine, le Pragmatisme étant considéré comme le seul mouvement philosophique authentiquement américain, afin de parvenir à une plus grande connaissance de ces deux penseurs majeurs, mais, aussi, du paysage politique américainThis work aims to analyze the political thought of the American theologian and political scientist Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971). More specifically, it will analyze the way in which Pragmatism was able to influence Niebuhr’s writings. Critical towards the liberal idealism of John Dewey (1859-1952), Niebuhr’s Christian realism was a counter against the optimism that political Pragmatism demonstrated in regards to the nature of man. Despite these criticisms, Niebuhr was unable to escape Pragmatism’s influence. This influence is the reason for this research: how political Pragmatism, specifically that of John Dewey was able to have an impact on Reinhold Niebuhr’s works and his Christian realism. This thesis will study the major works of these two thinkers in order to compare the political thought of each thinker. Younger than Dewey, Niebuhr had for a long time considered Dewey’s thought as nothing more than an idealized and outdated continuation of Enlightenment optimism which was incapable of accurately analyzing the contemporary world. Nevertheless, Niebuhr was influenced by Dewey. This thesis’s goal is to highlight the influences of Pragmatism in Niebuhr’s works in order to show that Niebuhrian thought is a continuation of Dewey’s pragmatic thought, specifically through the notions of Christian Pragmatism and therefore, fits within an overall framework of American Liberalism. In spite of the fundamental differences in thought, we are going to attempt to show that Niebuhr was a part of the typically American intellectual tradition, that is to say, Pragmatism; considered to be a uniquely American philosophical movement. It will be analyzed in order to achieve a greater understanding of these important thinkers, but also, of America’s political landscape
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BIZZARRI, ANGELA. « «E pluribus Unum» : Individuo e totalità nell'insorgere dell'idealismo americano (1858-1900) ». Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/868942.
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L’elaborato intende offrire, in prospettiva storiografica, un’analisi genealogica della ricezione della filosofia idealistica europea negli Stati Uniti d’America.
La ricerca si è concentrata sul lungo arco di tempo compreso tra il periodo post-rivoluzionario e i primissimi inizi del Novecento, e ha preso in esame il pensiero dei primi nuclei filosofici idealistici americani attivi tra Ohio e Missouri dal 1858.
Scopo fondamentale di questo studio, che si articola in tre capitoli, è porre in luce la stretta correlazione, nell’atteggiamento speculativo statunitense, di individualismo ed esigenza olistica, di tensione all’autorealizzazione e idealismo “organico”: fin dall’epoca coloniale, e più volte nel corso dello sviluppo, laddove si verifichi un pragmatismo dell’azione (nelle scelte accademiche e politiche, e in primis in periodo rivoluzionario e durante la Guerra Civile), a questo fa eco la necessità di un “ritorno al tutto” nel concepire la storia umana e il cosmo-natura. Conseguenza indiretta di questo duplice movimento intellettuale sono sia la ricerca, sia la manifestazione dei caratteri di un pensiero olistico tramite il quale si potesse ritrovare l’unità del molteplice. I neohegelismi di fine Ottocento, tra St. Louis e Cincinnati, ne costituiscono — nelle intenzioni — una fedele attuazione, sotto i profili socio—culturale, sperimentale e pedagogico.
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In my dissertation, which is entitled, «E pluribus unum»: Individual and Totality in the Awakening of American Idealism, I assume that American thought owes its peculiarity to the unique overlap of Puritanism associated with Evolution and post-Kantian idealism. I argue that its main tenets resulted from a combination of the pragmatic-Utopian attitude of the first leading American Calvinist, the strong sense of individual and collective responsibility of the newborn Nation, and the reception of Darwin’s evolution theory. In my view, the key to understanding how idealism acted upon American thought may lie in the idea of Totality. My central claim is that America’s first philosophers inherited from Calvinists and Enlightenment the intellectual separation of empirical and spiritual knowledge, and that the pivotal questions raised by the Enlightenment had been fully developed by idealism itself. That is to say, whenever American philosophers opposed to idealism, they were not struggling against it; they were rather struggling with it, for its all-embracing logic represented a valid resource for fully reassessing the unity of knowledge and action.
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Pereira, João Jorge Coelho. « Perspectives on american idealism since 1945 ». Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/43032.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Cultura (especialização em Cultura Norte - Americana).The United States are a political project born from clear moral and ethical values. The constitutional structure was created to reflect the revolutionary philosophy of the Independence, centred on defence of individual freedom. The innovative and ideological nature of the project has produced two different outlooks regarding the country’s role in the history of mankind. One is of a missionary temperament, internationalist and which argues for an involvement of America in world affairs to spread the values of 1776; the second is a more inward-looking understanding seeking to fulfil the meaning of America at home. This tension reproduces the dynamic nature of American idealism, founded on the clash of multiple positions and the ensuing negotiation which leads to national clarification. There is a cyclical clash of opposites from which emerges regularly a new synthesis that embraces the several impulses. There has been a noticeable departure from the original thesis stimulated by the political, social and constitutional evolution witnessed since the triumph of the internationalists in 1945. This has grave implications for the ideal of individual autonomy, and the absence of a national conversation regarding the international question and its domestic significance foretells a period of tension and reckoning from whence a new political and constitutional balance will emerge.
Os Estados Unidos foram criados como um projecto político assente sobre claros valores morais. A estrutura constitucional foi erguida para reflectir a filosofia revolucionária da independência, fortemente centrada na defesa da liberdade individual. O carácter inovador e ideológico deste projecto levou ao desenvolvimento de duas perspectivas divergentes relativamente ao papel do país na marcha da história universal. Uma de índole missionária, internacionalista e que advoga o envolvimento dos Estados Unidos com o mundo para disseminar os valores de 1776; uma segunda de natureza mais insular que pretende realizar a América dentro de portas. Esta tensão reproduz a natureza dinâmica do idealismo americano, baseada no choque entre múltiplas posições e o processo de negociação que transporta o país para novos entendimentos nacionais. Ciclicamente o país confronta-se com os seus opostos e do choque de tensões emerge regularmente uma nova síntese. O triunfo da tese internacionalista a partir de 1945 ocasionou uma evolução política, social e constitucional que desviou o país dos seus princípios fundacionais e que implicam graves prejuízos para o ideal de autonomia individual. A inexistência de um debate sobre a questão internacional e as suas consequências internas silenciou o processo negocial normal e deixa antever um período de conflito e tensão do qual se prevê que saía um novo equilíbrio político e constitucional.
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Pereira, João Jorge Coelho. « Present representations of 19th Century American political idealism ». Master's thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/21955.
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Dissertação de mestrado em Estudos InglesesO movimento de protesto “Tea-Party” tem marcado a agenda política nos Estados Unidos muito por causa da sua oposição ao crescimento do governo federal. O receio de que o país se tenha afastado dos seus princípios constitucionais tem sido o catalisador dos protestos. Esta dissertação tem como objectivo perceber como são entendidos os ideais que estão na base da formação dos Estados Unidos e qual a sua relevância actual. Para tal, serão apresentados os principais valores fundacionais mediante uma leitura dos principais autores e textos que definiram os valores centrais do país. A sua evolução ao longo de alguns dos mais marcantes episódios da história Americana é complementada com reacções de testemunhas e análises contemporâneas. O desvio em relação às aspirações iniciais, especialmente a partir das últimas décadas do séc. XIX, deve-se tanto a Republicanos como a Democratas, sendo que nenhum dos partidos conseguiu encontrar soluções que não assassem por um aumento do poder federal para responder às exigências democráticas e ao envolvimento externo. Os desafios que assim se apresentaram e as respostas encontradas alteraram o equilíbrio constitucional em favor do governo central deixando-o, no entanto, enfraquecido para fazer face a crescentes pressões oligárquicas que se têm vindo a impor. Esta ameaça, conjugada com a influência crescente do Estado federal na vida das pessoas, põe em risco a estrutura democrática do país, anulando assim as esperanças da Revolução.
The recent Tea-Party protests in the United States have captured the political momentum thanks to their opposition to Big Government. They find a ready audience among those who fear that the country has moved away from its constitutional principles. This dissertation aims to question how the original ideals that inspired the formation of the United States are perceived today and what is their current relevance. In order to do this, the main foundational values are first presented through a reading of the principal authors and texts that established the core ideals. Their evolution throughout some of the most important moments in American history follows compounded with observer’s reactions as well as current analysis. Although the country has moved from its initial commitments, especially since the last decades of the 19th century, both Republicans and Democrats are responsible, neither managing to find answers to the combined pressures for greater democracy and the exigencies of international engagements that did not increase the federal government’s power. These challenges and the reactions that followed tipped the constitutional balance in favour of Washington, leaving it paradoxically weakened before oligarchic pressures that have been increasing of lately. This oligarchic threat, coupled with the enormous influence exerted by Big Government in people’s daily lives, threatens to undermine the whole democratic structure, cancelling the Revolutionary hopes.
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Park, Joon. « From Transcendental Subjective Vision to Political Idealism : Panoramas in Antebellum American Literature ». Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11496.
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This dissertation explores the importance of the panorama for American Renaissance writers' participation in ideological formations in the antebellum period. I analyze how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Wells Brown, Henry Box Brown, and Harriet Beecher Stowe use the panorama as a metaphorical site to contest their different positions on epistemological and sociopolitical agendas such as transcendentalism, masculinist expansionism, and radical abolitionism.
Emerson uses the panorama as a key metaphor to underpin his transcendental idealism and situate it in contemporary debates on vision, gender, and race. Connecting the panorama with optical theories on light and color, Emerson appropriates them to theorize his transcendental optics and makes a hierarchical distinction between light/transparency/panorama as metaphors for spirit, masculinity, and race-neutral man versus color/opacity/myopic vision for body, femininity, and racial-colored skin. In his paean to the moving panorama, Thoreau expresses his desire for Emersonian correspondence between nature and the spirit through transcendental panoramic vision. However, Thoreau's esteem for nature's materiality causes his panoramic vision to be corporeal and empirical in its deviation from the decorporealized vision in Emerson?s notion of transparent eyeball. Hawthorne repudiates the Transcendentalists' and social reformers' totalizing and absolutist idealism through his critique of the panorama and the emphasis on opacity and ambiguity of the human mind and vision. Hawthorne reveals how the panorama satisfies the desire for visual and physical control over the rapidly expanding world and the fantasy of access to truth. Countering the dominant convention of the Mississippi panorama that objectifies slaves as a spectacle for romantic tourism, Box Brown and Wells Brown open up a new American subgenre of the moving panorama, the anti-slavery panorama. They reconstruct black masculinity by verbally and visually representing real-life stories of some male fugitive slaves and idealizing them as masculine heroes of the anti-slavery movement. In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe criticizes how the favorable representation of slavery and the objectification of slaves in the Mississippi panorama and the picturesque help to construct her northern readers' uncompassionate and hard-hearted attitudes toward the cruel realities of slavery and presents Tom's sympathetic and humanized "eyes" as an alternative vision.
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Cortés, Ángel de Jesús. « Student idealists and the specter of natural science, 1870-1910 ». 2008. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-03042008-133407/.
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Amter, Beth T. « Getting real : b beauty and politics in contemporary African American literature / ». 2007. http://www.consuls.org/record=b.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2007.Thesis advisor: Aimee Pozorski. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-88). Also available via the World Wide Web.