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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785448603321

Autore

Ceaser James W

Titolo

Designing a polity [[electronic resource] ] : America's Constitution in theory and practice / / James W. Ceaser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010

ISBN

1-282-92267-X

9786612922671

1-4422-0792-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Classificazione

86.50

Disciplina

320.973

Soggetti

Constitutional history - United States

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; I; political foundations; 1; The Doctrine of Political Nonfoundationalism; 2; Political Foundations in Tocqueville's Democracy in America; 3; American Political Foundations in the Thought of Leo Strauss; II; The Founders, Constitutional Design, and the Role of Political Science; 4; Fame and The Federalist: The American Founders and the Recovery of Political Science; 5; Demagoguery, Statesmanship, and Presidential Politics; 6; Doctrines of Presidential-Congressional Relations; III; Modern Conservatism; 7; Four Heads and One Heart: The Modern Conservative Movement; 8

The Social Construction of the Reagan Legacy IV; The American Way of Life; 9; The Theoretical Origins of Anti-Americanism; Notes; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

In Designing a Polity, James W. Ceaser, one of our leading scholars of American political development, argues for the continuing central role of the Founding within the study of American government. Drawing on essays published over the past 10 years, extensively updated and revised to reflect current politics, Ceaser engages the Founding Fathers, particularly James Madison, emphasizes Alexis de Tocqueville as a model of political inquiry, critiques current and recent theorists such as Richard Rorty and Jacques Derrida, and explores the varieties of



contemporary conservative thought. Designing

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910886940703321

Titolo

The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Taylor & Francis, 2024

ISBN

1-003-83553-8

1-003-29498-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (732 p.)

Collana

Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions

Disciplina

709.04

Soggetti

Anthropology

c 1500 onwards to present day

Colonialism and imperialism

History and Archaeology

History of art

Paintings and painting

Sculpture

Society and culture: general

The arts: general topics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Workshops: Translations of media and techniques -- Terminology: alternative geographies and temporalities --Transregional emulations/rethinking empire -- Literary and material poetics -- translating the sacred -- Constructed spaces and perspectives.

Sommario/riassunto

This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period. The international group of contributors take an art historical approach characterized by close analysis of form and meaning as well as function, and a focus on questions of crosscultural dialogue and adaptation. Seeking to de-emphasize the traditional focus on Europe, this book is a critical guide



to the literature and the state of the field. Chapters outline new questions and agendas while pushing beyond familiar material. Main themes include workshops, the migrations of artists, objects, technologies, diplomatic gifts, imperial ideologies, ethnicity and indigeneity, sacred spaces and image cults, as well as engaging with the open questions of "the Renaissance" and "the global." This will be a useful and important resource for researchers and students alike and will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, material culture, and Renaissance studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license