Confronting the Constitution : the challenge to Locke, Montesquieu, Jefferson, and the Federalists from utilitarianism, historicism, Marxism, Freudianism, pragmatism, existentialism-- / edited by Allan Bloom with the assistance of Steven J. Kautz.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-541) and index.
Contents
The philosophic understandings of human nature informing the constitution / Thomas L. Pangle -- The political theory of the constitution / David F. Epstein -- Jefferson's pulse of republican reformation / Ralph Lerner -- The social theory of the founders / Nathan Tarcov -- The Scottish enlightenment and the liberal political tradition / Frank D. Balog -- Rousseau, the turning point / Allan Bloom -- Utilitarianism and the constitution / Joseph Hamburger -- Idealism / Susan Shell -- Historicism and the constitution / Fred Baumann -- Capitalism / Mark F. Plattner -- Reflections on Marxism and America / W.R. Newell -- Freud and the American constitution / Joel Schwartz -- Pragmatism and the U.S. constitution / James H. Nichols -- Existentialism and democracy / Werner J. Dannhauser -- Social science and the constitution / Harvey C. Mansfield -- Neoconstitutionalism? Rawls, Dworkin, and Nozick / Clifford Orwin, James R. Stoner.
