{"product_id":"hobbes-and-america-exploring-the-constitutional-foundations-9781442639287","title":"Hobbes and America: Exploring the Constitutional Foundations","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Frank Coleman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis path-breaking study seriously shakes the credibility of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eprevalent interpretations of American government and politics. It exposes the real \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerican constitutional morality, one embodied in a code adhered to by those in \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003epolitical life.\u003cp\u003eFrank Coleman makes a persuasive case that the real roots of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethe American political system are in Hobbes, and not, as is usually thought, in \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLocke. He shows that a Hobbesian interpretation fits the transactional, bargaining, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eor conflict-management nature of American politics pointed out by all the empirical \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003epolitical scientists, although this viewpoint is incompatible with the leading \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ephilosophical interpretations of American constitutionalism.\u003cp\u003eIn so far as the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerican system and its rationale are Hobbesian, they are thereby incapable of \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eresolving social conflicts and of pursuing any common good. The leading theories, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eparticularly the reformist theories, are unable to absorb the teachings of empirical \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003epolitical science - and to such an extent that one can speak of a pattern of \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003epolitical schizophrenia prevailing in the political science \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eprofession.\u003cp\u003eColeman is no naive iconoclast: he has a thorough grasp and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eappreciation of the traditions of political theory from Aristotle to Oakeshott: he \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edissects his material meticulously, with coherence and integrity. His synthesis of \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eempirical and philosophical studies of political life sharpens our perceptions and \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eforces a re-evaluation of certain ideas and well-entrenched notions. Hobbes and \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerica has serious implications for understanding both American politics and, more \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003egenerally, western political experience and thought. ","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592249131159,"sku":"9781442639287","price":2942.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781442639287.webp?v=1774976988","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hobbes-and-america-exploring-the-constitutional-foundations-9781442639287","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}