LEADER 03976nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910781604003321 005 20230124183606.0 010 $a0-674-06128-4 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061286 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051705 035 $a(OCoLC)756501815 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10496846 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535209 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11372717 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535209 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10523338 035 $a(PQKB)10126595 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300970 035 $a(DE-B1597)178254 035 $a(OCoLC)1024015911 035 $a(OCoLC)1037980079 035 $a(OCoLC)1041973506 035 $a(OCoLC)1046615486 035 $a(OCoLC)1047025383 035 $a(OCoLC)1049620295 035 $a(OCoLC)1054872926 035 $a(OCoLC)979588448 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061286 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300970 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496846 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051705 100 $a20100910d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCommon sense$b[electronic resource] $ea political history /$fSophia Rosenfeld 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05781-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aCommon sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine's vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense-the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate-remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush's aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama's down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon.The story begins in the aftermath of England's Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld's accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise. 606 $aPolitical science$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aDemocracy$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1775-1783 607 $aFrance$xPolitics and government$y1789-1799 615 0$aPolitical science$xHistory 615 0$aDemocracy 676 $a320.01/1 700 $aRosenfeld$b Sophia A$01517569 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781604003321 996 $aCommon sense$93754717 997 $aUNINA