Common Sense And Other Political Writings
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Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2003-07-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1101219505 |
A volume of Thomas Paine's most essential works, showcasing one of American history's most eloquent proponents of democracy. Upon publication, Thomas Paine’s modest pamphlet Common Sense shocked and spurred the foundling American colonies of 1776 to action. It demanded freedom from Britain—when even the most fervent patriots were only advocating tax reform. Paine’s daring prose paved the way for the Declaration of Independence and, consequently, the Revolutionary War. For “without the pen of Paine,” as John Adams said, “the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” Later, his impassioned defense of the French Revolution, Rights of Man, caused a worldwide sensation. Napoleon, for one, claimed to have slept with a copy under his pillow, recommending that “a statue of gold should be erected to [Paine] in every city in the universe.” Here in one volume, these two complete works are joined with selections from Pain's other major essays, “The Crisis,” “The Age of Reason,” and “Agrarian Justice.” Includes a Foreword by Jack Fruchtman Jr. and an Introduction by Sidney Hook
Author | : Sophia Rosenfeld |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674057813 |
Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.
Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : Wildside Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781434458148 |
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-American political activist, political theorist and theologian. As the author of highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, 1776's Common Sense and the series The American Crisis. His ideas reflected Enlightenment era rhetoric of transnational human rights. This volume also includes selections from Paine's Rights of Man, written in light of the French Revolution.
Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1994-10-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0679433147 |
The authorities in power in England during Thomas Paine’s lifetime saw him as an agent provocateur who used his seditious eloquence to support the emancipation of slaves and women, the demands of working people, and the rebels of the French and American Revolutions. History, on the other hand, has come to regard him as the figure who gave political cogency to the liberating ideas of the Enlightenment. His great pamphlets, Rights of Man and Common Sense, are now recognized for what they are–classic arguments in defense of the individual’s right to assert his or her freedom in the face of tyranny.
Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2003-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0375760113 |
Includes the complete texts of Common Sense; Rights of Man, Part the Second; The Age of Reason (part one); Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, published anonymously and just discovered to be Paine’s work; and Letter to the Abbé Raynal, Paine’s first examination of world events; as well as selections from The American Crises In 1776, America was a hotbed of enlightenment and revolution. Thomas Paine not only spurred his fellow Americans to action but soon came to symbolize the spirit of the Revolution. His elegantly persuasive pieces spoke to the hearts and minds of those fighting for freedom. He was later outlawed in Britain, jailed in France, and finally labeled an atheist upon his return to America.
Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2020-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1647981476 |
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) was an Englishman and American political activist. He authored pamphlets which helped motivate the American colonists to declare independence in 1776. Common Sense is his most famous of such pamphlets.
Author | : Jack Fruchtman Jr. |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2009-07-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0801892848 |
This concise, insightful study explores the sources and impact of one of the early republic's most influential minds. An Englishman by birth, an American by choice and necessity, Thomas Paine advocated ideas about rights, equality, democracy, and liberty that were far advanced beyond those of his American compatriots. His seminal works, Common Sense and the Rights of Man, were rallying cries for the American and French Revolutions. More than any other eighteenth-century political writer and activist, Paine defies easy categorization. A man of contrasts and contradictions, Paine was as much a believer in the power of reason as he was in a benevolent deity. He was at once liberal and conservative, a Quaker who was not a pacifist, and an inherently gifted writer who was convinced he was always right. Jack Fruchtman Jr. analyzes Paine's radical thought both in the context of his time and as a blueprint for the future development of republican government. His systematic approach identifies the themes of signal importance to Paine's political thought, demonstrating especially how crucial religion and God were to the development and expression of his political ideals.
Author | : Thomas Paine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political science |
ISBN | : 9780521667999 |
Recoge:Common Sense; Rights of Man; The age of Reason; Agrarian justice.