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Auteur(s) : Federici, Michael P.
Titre(s) : The political philosophy of Alexander Hamilton [Texte imprimé] / Michael P. Federici
Publication : Baltimore (Md.) : J. Hopkins university press, 2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii, 291 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : The political philosophy of the American founders
Lien à la collection : The political philosophy of the American founders
Comprend : Introduction ; Hamilton's significance -- ; The personal background of a political
theorist -- ; Hamilton's philosophical anthropology -- ; Theoretical foundations of
constitutionalism -- ; Hamilton and American constitutional formation -- ; Hamilton's
foreign policy -- ; Hamilton's political economy -- ; Hamilton and Jefferson --Conclusion
; Hamilton's legacy.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"America's first treasury secretary and one of the three authors of the Federalist
Papers, Alexander Hamilton stands as one of the nation's important early statesmen.
Michael P. Federici places this Founding Father among the country's original political
philosophers as well ; Hamilton remains something of an enigma. Conservatives and
liberals both claim him, and in his writings one can find material to support the
positions of either camp. Taking a balanced and objective approach, Federici sorts
through the written and historical record to reveal Hamilton's philosophy as the synthetic
product of a well-read and pragmatic figure whose intellectual genealogy drew on Classical
thinkers such as Cicero and Plutarch, Christian theologians, and Enlightenment philosophers,
including Hume and Montesquieu. In evaluating the thought of this republican and would-be
empire builder, Federici explains that the apparent contradictions found in the Federalist
Papers and other examples of Hamilton's writings reflect both his practical engagement
with debates over the French Revolution, capital expansion, commercialism, and other
large issues of his time, and his search for a balance between central authority and
federalism in the embryonic American government. This book challenges the view of
Hamilton as a monarchist and shows him instead to be a strong advocate of American
constitutionalism ; Devoted to the whole of Hamilton's political writing, this accessible
and teachable analysis makes clear the enormous influence Hamilton had on the development
of American political and economic institutions and policies."--pub. desc
Sujet(s) : Hamilton, Alexander (1757-1804) -- Pensée politique et sociale
Philosophie politique -- États-Unis -- 18e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781421405384 (hdbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1421405385 (hdbk.) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9781421405391 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1421405393 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9781421406602 (electronic). - ISBN 1421406608 (electronic) (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42711386s
Notice n° :
FRBNF42711386
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