Trump and Political Philosophy Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Civic Virtue /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sable, Marc Benjamin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Torres, Angel Jaramillo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political theory.; Political philosophy.; United States-Politics and government.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.; US Politics.

This book seeks to address the relation of political philosophy and Donald Trump as a political phenomenon through the notions of patriotism, cosmopolitanism, and civic virtue. Political philosophers have been prescient in explaining trends that may explain our political misgivings. Madison warned d...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism and Civic Virtue: Trumpians and Trumpism
• 2. Aristotle's Account of Factional Conflict and the Rise of Donald Trump
• 3. Roman Parallels: Plutarch and the Trump Election
• 4. Thomism and Trumpism
• 5. Trump as a Machiavellian Prince? Reflections on Corruption and American Constitutionalism
• 6. Machiavelli and Inequality
• 7. Thomas Hobbes's Defense of Liberalism, Populism, and the Rise of Donald Trump
• 8. Hope, Hate and Indignation: Spinoza and Political Emotion in the Trump Era
• 9. Preserving Liberty in Mass Society: Locke and The 2016 Presidential Election
• 10. Civic Dignity in the Age of Donald Trump: A Kantian Perspective
• 11. The Ideological Rhetoric of the Trump Platform and Edmund Burke's Theory of a Generational Compact
• 12. The Aim of Every Political Constitution: The American Founders and the Election of Trump
• 13. Tocqueville's Great Party Politics and the Election of Donald Trump
• 14. Power, Resentment, and Self-Preservation: Nietzsche's Moral Psychology as a Critique of Trump
• 15. Uncivil Society: Hegel, Kojève, and the Crisis of Political Legitimacy
• 16. A Festival for Frustrated Egos: The Rise of Trump from an Early Frankfurt School Critical Theory Perspective
• 17. Nationalism, Universalism and Nihilism: Trump's Politics in Light of the Strauss-Kojève Debate
• 18. Deleuze's Politics of Faciality: Trump and the American of Exclusion.