International library of essays in the history of social and political thought
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Preface; Introduction; PART I SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE; 1 Thomas Paine: A Survey of Research and Criticism since 1945; 2 The Lifelong Education of Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Some Reflections upon his Acquaintance Among Books; PART II TOM PAINE AND THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL IDEAS; 3 The Moral Economics of Tom Paine; 4 Thomas Paine "Prepare in Time an Asylum for Mankind"; 5 A Note on Common Sense and Christian Eschatology; 6 Nature and Revolution in Paine's Common Sense
15 The American Revolution and the Transformation of English Republicanism16 Religion and Radicalism: English Political Theory in the Age of Revolution; 17 Paine, America, and the "Modernization" of Political Consciousness; PART V LITERARY ANALYSES OF PAINE'S WRITINGS; 18 The Commonalities of Common Sense; 19 Style and Identification in Common Sense; 20 Familial Politics: Thomas Paine and the Killing of the King, 1776; 21 Tom Paine and American Loneliness; 22 Parasiting America: The Radical Function of Heterogeneity in Thomas Paine's Early Writings; PART VI PAINE IN RADICAL HISTORY
23 Radicals and the Making of American Democracy: Toward a New Narrative of American History24 Local Attachments, National Identities and World Citizenship in the Thought of Thomas Paine; Name Index
7 From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man8 Paine and Burke: God, Nature and Politics; 9 Thomas Paine: Ransom, Civil Peace, and the Natural Right to Welfare; 10 Paine's Agrarian Justice (1796) and the Secularisation of Natural Jurisprudence; PART III PAINE AND REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGY; 11 Thomas Paine's Apostles: Radical Emigrés and the Triumph of Jeffersonian Republicanism; 12 Radical Lockeanism in American Political Culture; 13 English Republicanism in the 1790s; PART IV PAINE AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF IDEAS; 14 Ideology and the Origins of Liberal America
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Thomas Paine is a unique political thinker who has continued to attract scholarly and popular attention from the time he wrote about both the American and French Revolutions at the end of the eighteenth century. This collection brings together the most recent essays debating the meaning and relevance of Paine's works. It includes an historiographical survey of scholarship about Paine and articles by the leading authorities in the field. The essays survey his life, analyze his ideas, place them in their social and intellectual context, and appraise their significance today.