Culture critique: Fernand Dumont and New Quebec sociology
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In: New world perspectives
In: The review of politics, Band 67, Heft 1, S. 113-134
ISSN: 1748-6858
Mark Gibian's major study of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.'s political theory casts Holmes as a democratic pluralist in the line of Richard Rorty who instantiates his commitment in the literary form of untrammeled table talk. Gibian's thesis can be challenged through a close reading of Holmes's main political work, The Professor at the Breakfast Table, revealing that Holmes's defense of free expression as the core of American national identity is counterpointed by a more fundamental appeal to nondiscursive reconciliation. Treating The Professor as a "dramatized essay" or "proto-novel" opens the possibility that the work's meaning is most fully disclosed by placing conversation in tandem with the deeds and recorded gestures that develop its plot. Through a dramatic reading, Holmes emerges as a humanist balancing aristocratic and democratic principles, rather than as a liberal discourse analyst.
In: The review of politics, Band 67, Heft 1, S. 113-134
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 91-94
ISSN: 1469-2899
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 56, Heft 2, S. 538-541
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: Canadian journal of political and social theory: Revue canadienne de théorie politique et sociale, Band 15, Heft 1-3, S. 210
ISSN: 0380-9420
In: History of European ideas, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 265-266
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: American political science review, Band 82, Heft 3, S. 976-977
ISSN: 1537-5943