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The Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution
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by Steven M. Dworetz
Sales Rank: 496347
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Cover Type: Paperback with 264 pages
Published by: Duke University Press December 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822314703
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822314707
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
Weighs: 15.2 ounces
Product Review
“The Unvarnished Doctrine restores Lockean-liberal thought to its proper place as the dominant ideology of the American Revolution. In doing so, this great book challenges republican revisionism which either denies the significance of Locke’s liberalism or casts it as anti-revolutionary.”
--Douglas Jaenicke, Political Studies
Product Description
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 Strauss and C. B. Macpherson. Drawing on an examination of sermons and tracts of the New England clergy, Dworetz argues that the colonists themselves did not hold this conception of Locke. Moreover, these ministers found an affinity with the principles of Locke’s theistic liberalism and derived a moral justification for revolution from those principles. The connection between Locke and colonial clergy, Dworetz maintains, constitutes a significant, radicalizing force in American revolutionary thought.
Reader Reviews
A useful summary and critique of the changing paradigms of the historiography of the American Revolution as it shifts ground between the Lockean interpretations and the more recent revisionist accounts based on the issues of civic republicanism proposed by Pocock in his Machiavellian Moment. Another work similar to this is Diggins' The Lost Soul of American Politics (and also On Hallowed Ground). The view of Locke from the left (entirely useful up to a point) has long created a kind of mental block as to this seminal figure, but it was hard to disown him from his seminal place in the generation of modern liberalism, and it is just as hard to see how Machiavellian republicanism can be taken as a substitute. But then that's the debate, and a review of the different perspectives is well served by this reflective account, among others.
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