Unvarnished Doctrine : Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution
In The Unvarnished Doctrine, Steven M. Dworetz addresses two critical issues in contemporary thinking on the American Revolution-the ideological character of this event, and, more specifically, the relevance of ""America's Philosopher, the Great Mr. Locke, "" in this experience. Recent interpretations of the American revolution, particularly those of Bailyn and Pocock, have incorporated an understanding of Locke as the moral apologist of unlimited accumulation and the original ideological crusader for the ""spirit of capitalism, "" a view based largely on the work of theorists Leo St
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Preface to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
1 The Historiographic Revolution: The Rise of "Cato" and the Decline of Locke in American Revolutionary Thought
2 A Discourse on Method
3 The Lockean Response to British "Innovations"
4 Historiography and the Interpretation of Political Theory
5 Theistic Liberalism in the Teaching of the New England Clergy
6 History, Myth, and the Secular Salvation of American Liberalism
Notes
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