An Emancipation of the Mind
Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
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How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.
In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way back to the rationalist, secularist, and essentially atheist inspiration for the first American Revolution. Frederick Douglass's unusual interest in radical German philosophers and Abraham Lincoln's buried allusions to the same thinkers are but a few of the clues that underlie this propulsive philosophical detective story.
With fresh takes on forgotten thinkers like Theodore Parker, the excommunicated Unitarian minister who is the original source of some of Lincoln's most famous lines, Matthew Stewart tells the story of the battle between America's philosophical radicals and the conservative counterrevolution that swept the American republic in the first decades of its existence and persists in new forms up to the present day.
In exposing the role of Christian nationalism and the collusion between northern economic elites and slaveholding oligarchs, An Emancipation of the Mind demands a significant revision in our understanding of the origins and meaning of the struggle over slavery in America-and offers a fresh perspective on struggles between democracy and elite power today.
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Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory—and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three hundred years. In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too much judgement
- De Historic Philosopher en 04-23-24
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Nature's God
- The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
- De: Matthew Stewart
- Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 111
Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben Franklin, and the underappreciated Thomas Paine, but also Ethan Allen, the hero of the Green Mountain Boys, and Thomas Young, the forgotten Founder who kicked off the Boston Tea Party. These radicals who founded America set their sights on a revolution of the mind. Derided as "infidels" and "atheists" in their own time, they wanted to liberate us not just from one king but from the tyranny of supernatural religion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent exploration of this subject
- De Caroline en 01-13-15
De: Matthew Stewart
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The Weimar Years
- Rise and Fall 1918–1933
- De: Frank McDonough
- Narrado por: Paul McGann
- Duración: 19 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 49
Established in 1918–19, in the wake of Germany’s catastrophic defeat in the First World War and the revolution that followed swiftly on its heels, the Weimar Republic ushered in widespread social reform, a radical cultural flowering and the most democratic conditions the German people had ever known. The Weimar Years is a vivid narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Depth
- De Amazon Customer en 02-02-24
De: Frank McDonough
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Illiberal America
- A History
- De: Steven Hahn
- Narrado por: Mitch Crawford
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 26
If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A good title with a vague content
- De d.l.bagnoli en 04-26-25
De: Steven Hahn
Powerful revisionist history on race, racism, and the American past (and present)
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A bit too much about Hegel. ( even a little is hard to take) but don’t let that keep you from listening to this intriguing book
Refreshing viewpoint
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Spectacular and inspiring
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“The arc of the moral universe is long…”
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