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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Burt, John Davies (1955-....)
Titre(s) : Lincoln's tragic pragmatism [Texte imprimé] : Lincoln, Douglas, and moral conflict / John Burt
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : xvii, 814 pages ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 775-790) and index
Sujet(s) : Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) -- Morale
Douglas, Stephen A. (1813-1861)
Démocratie -- Aspect moral -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Esclavage -- Aspect moral -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0674983998. - ISBN 9780674983991
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457955286
Notice n° :
FRBNF45795528
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : implicitness and moral conflict. Negative capability ; Liberalism and
moral conflict ; Lincoln's Peoria Speech of 1854. The debate over the Kansas-Nebraska
Act ; Making and breaking deals in 1850 and in 1854 ; Lincoln's chief arguments ;
The irony of American history ; Lincoln's conspiracy charge. The "house divided"
metaphor ; The unfolding of the Bleeding Kansas War ; Douglas and the Lecompton Constitution
; Lincoln's evidence ; Dred Scott II ; A living dog is better than a dead lion ;
Douglas's conspiracy charge. Lincoln and the founding of the Republican Party ; The
reorganization of parties ; From Whig to Republican ; Anti-Nebraska and Anti-Lecompton
Democrats ; The 1854 platforms ; Conspiracies across party lines ; Sectional and ideological
parties ; Conclusion ; Douglas's fanaticism charge. Hostility to New England ; The
apodictic style and reasonableness ; Appeals to the divine will ; Implicitness and
situatedness ; Transformation of conceptions ; Limits of persuasive engagement ;
Douglas's racial equality charge. Lincoln's nonextension position and anti-slavery
; Douglas on abolition and black citizenship ; From nonextension to emancipation ;
From emancipation to citizenship ; Racism and freedom ; The Dred Scott Case. Legal
background of the case ; The Dred Scott Case in court ; Lincoln's response ; Douglas's
response ; Conclusion ; Aftershocks of the debates. Southern responses to the Freeport
Doctrine ; Douglas's "Dividing Line" Doctrine ; The pamphlet war with Jeremiah Black
; The 1859 Ohio "Lincoln-Douglas Debates" ; The Cooper Union Speech ; The First Inaugural
Address ; Coda : and the war came. The Gettysburg Address ; The will of God prevails
; The Second Inaugural Address.
