Calhoun and the concept of the "reactionary enlightenment": an examination of the disquisition on government
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Clarke, J. (1982). Calhoun and the concept of the "reactionary enlightenment": an examination of the disquisition on government
In the 1950s, Louis Hartz drew attention to the curiously paradoxical nature of antebellum Southern political thought by coining the descriptive phrase the "Reactionary Enlightenment". The essence of the paradox lay in the apparent impossibility of c... Read More about Calhoun and the concept of the "reactionary enlightenment": an examination of the disquisition on government.