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15.02.2018 | Symposium: Richard Hoftstadter and The American Political Tradition

The Dialectical Liberalism of Richard Hofstadter

verfasst von: Benjamin Serby

Erschienen in: Society | Ausgabe 2/2018

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Abstract

This essay examines Richard Hofstadter’s The American Political Tradition, alongside some of his unpublished writings from the 1940s, in order to reassess his contributions to the history of American political culture and thought. After exploring some of the implications of Hofstadter’s critical analysis of mid-century liberalism, the essay then considers how we might bring his insights into the present.

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Fußnoten
1
Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), xxxvii.
 
2
Ibid, xxxix.
 
3
Eric Foner, introduction to Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), xxii.
 
4
Hofstadter, American Political Tradition, xxxiii
 
5
Richard Hofstadter, “Introduction” (unpublished manuscript, n.d. [1940s]), Box 3: The American Political Tradition, Richard Hofstadter Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University. A digital version of this document is available to view online at http://​richardhofstadte​r100.​omeka.​net/​items/​show/​3.
 
6
Alfred Kazin, New York Jew (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2013), 48.
 
7
Hofstadter, American Political Tradition, 436.
 
8
Ibid, 448.
 
9
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform (New York: Vintage Books, 1955), 307.
 
10
Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition, xxxvi.
 
11
Ibid.
 
12
Richard Hofstadter, “The New Deal and American Liberalism” (unpublished manuscript, n.d. [late 1940s]), Box 36: Miscellaneous Notes and Drafts, Hofstadter Papers. A digital version of this document is available to view online at http://​richardhofstadte​r100.​omeka.​net/​items/​show/​19.
 
13
Ibid.
 
14
Ibid.
 
15
Ibid.
 
16
Ibid.
 
17
Ibid.
 
18
Richard Hofstadter, “The Great Depression and American History” (unpublished manuscript, n.d. [early 1960s?]), Box 36: Miscellaneous Notes and Drafts, Hofstadter Papers.
 
19
David M. Potter, “The Art of Comity,” The New York Review of Books 11, no. 10 (December 5, 1968).
 
20
Hofstadter, “The New Deal and American Liberalism.”
 
21
Christopher Lasch, “On Richard Hofstadter,” The New York Review of Books 20, no. 3 (March 8, 1973).
 
22
See, for instance, Mike Davis, “The Great God Trump & The White Working Class,” Catalyst 1, no. 1 (Spring 2017), available online at https://​catalyst-journal.​com/​vol1/​no1/​great-god-trump-davis.
 
23
Hofstadter, “The New Deal and American Liberalism.”
 
24
Ibid.
 
25
Hofstadter, “Introduction.”
 
26
Ibid.
 
27
Pankaj Mishra, “Welcome to the Age of Anger,” The Guardian, December 8, 2016, available at https://​www.​theguardian.​com/​politics/​2016/​dec/​08/​welcome-age-anger-brexit-trump
 
28
Hofstadter, “Introduction”
 
29
Hofstadter, “The New Deal and American Liberalism”
 
30
Richard Hofstadter, “Introduction: Reflections on American Violence,” in Richard Hofstadter and Michael Wallace, eds., American Violence: A Documentary Reader (State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1970), 5.
 
Metadaten
Titel
The Dialectical Liberalism of Richard Hofstadter
verfasst von
Benjamin Serby
Publikationsdatum
15.02.2018
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Society / Ausgabe 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-018-0226-1

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