LEADER 02783nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910779262003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-84418-3 010 $a9786613711588 010 $a0-7391-7364-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104317 035 $a(EBL)950446 035 $a(OCoLC)806520906 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000701757 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12258344 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000701757 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10692701 035 $a(PQKB)11228478 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC950446 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL950446 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10573598 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL371158 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104317 100 $a20120222d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPragmatism, politics, and perversity$b[electronic resource] $edemocracy and the American party battle /$fJoseph L. Esposito 210 $aLanham, Md. $cLexington Books$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (391 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-7363-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- Introduction -- Pragmatism and the democracy project -- Pragmatic political history -- A foundation on a serbonian bog -- Market state and nation state -- A judiciary for the market state -- Rogue justice -- Too much democracy -- Judicial review as ideology -- Religion and race -- Old wine in new bottles -- Rewriting history -- The great Kansas charade -- Free labor and the economics of slavery -- Civil War -- Disorder in the court -- Understanding the party battle -- Free speech in the age of the big megaphone. 330 $aA philosophical yet detailed history of the American party battle explaining why partisan debate is so perverse and how it could be made less so. Building upon the heritage of American pragmatism, from Peirce to Rorty and the new pragmatists, as well as the work of historian Charles Beard, the book identifies that battle as a struggle between nation state and market state, with special emphasis on the perversity of Civil War politics. 606 $aPolitical parties$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aDemocracy$zUnited States 606 $aPragmatism$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPolitical parties$xHistory. 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aPragmatism$xHistory. 676 $a324.273 700 $aEsposito$b Joseph L.$f1941-$01536457 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779262003321 996 $aPragmatism, politics, and perversity$93842787 997 $aUNINA