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Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict

Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict

Burt, John

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PhilosophyCivil War Period (1850-1877)

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ISBN10: 0674983998
ISBN13: 9780674983991
Publisher: Belknap Pr
Published: Jul 9 2018
Pages: 832
Weight: 2.65
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

In 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism, John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the line. In a United States stubbornly divided over ethical issues, the overarching question posed by the Lincoln-Douglas debates has not lost its urgency: Can a liberal political system be used to mediate moral disputes? And if it cannot, is violence inevitable?

John Burt has written a work that every serious student of Lincoln will have to read...Burt refracts Lincoln through the philosophy of Kant, Rawls and contemporary liberal political theory. His is very much a Lincoln for our time.

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