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The Thomas Paine Reader de Thomas Paine

The Thomas Paine Reader

Autor Thomas Paine
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 noi 2007

Prezentat sub forma unui manual de referință pentru studiul gândirii politice radicale, Thomas Paine Reader reunește cele mai influente texte ale autorului care a definit spiritul Revoluției Americane. Subliniem faptul că această ediție omnibus nu este doar o simplă antologie, ci un instrument critic esențial, restaurând integral Partea a Treia din The Age of Reason și oferind acces la eseuri mai puțin circulate, precum Agrarian Justice. Structura volumului urmărește progresia ideologică a lui Thomas Paine, de la primele sale intervenții în favoarea ofițerilor de accize în Anglia, până la pledoariile incendiare din Common Sense care au unit coloniile americane. Găsim în acest volum o perspectivă nuanțată asupra deismului și empirismului rațional al autorului, elemente care completează viziunea pur politică regăsită în Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine prin adăugarea unor texte de profunzime teologică și socială. Față de alte ediții mai succinte, precum Selected Writings of Thomas Paine din seria Rethinking the Western Tradition, acest reader se distinge prin includerea scrisorilor către George Washington și a disertațiilor despre principiile guvernării, oferind o imagine completă a tranziției sale de la pamfletar revoluționar la teoretician al drepturilor omului. Suntem de părere că rigoarea cu care editorii Isaac Kramnick și Michael Foot au selectat materialele face din acest volum o resursă academică de prim rang, facilitând înțelegerea modului în care argumentele lui Paine pentru democrația reprezentativă au devenit piloni ai modernității.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781604591385
ISBN-10: 1604591382
Pagini: 536
Dimensiuni: 155 x 227 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: A & D Publishing
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această antologie este recomandată studenților la științe politice și istorie care doresc să exploreze fundamentele democrației moderne. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a legăturii dintre rațiune, drepturi naturale și justiție socială. Motivul concret pentru achiziție este accesul la versiunea restaurată a lucrării The Age of Reason și la eseul Agrarian Justice, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra viziunii economice și religioase a lui Paine.

Despre autor

Născut în Anglia, Thomas Paine a fost un intelectual și revoluționar a cărui viață a fost marcată de spiritul de aventură și rebeliune. După o carieră scurtă ca ofițer fiscal, experiență ce a stat la baza primei sale scrieri, a emigrat în Philadelphia în 1774. Acolo a devenit vocea definitorie a independenței americane prin Common Sense. Ulterior, implicarea sa în Revoluția Franceză și publicarea The Rights of Man i-au adus eticheta de proscris în țara natală. Paine rămâne unul dintre cei mai influenți autori ai secolului al XVIII-lea, ideile sale despre drepturile inalienabile și guvernarea reprezentativă modelând cursul istoriei politice occidentale.

Descriere scurtă

Collected here in this omnibus edition are Thomas Paine's most important books, along with his short essay Agrarian Justice. This edition has also restored the Third Part to The Age Of Reason. In January of 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense; the book inflamed its readers and ignited the American Revolution. In truth, the fires of dissent were already smoldering, but Paine's impassioned writing gave focus to the many disparate voices and united a country. Between 1776 and 1779, he wrote The American Crisis, in an effort to justify the American Revolution and to bolster the morale of the Continental Army. In The Rights of Man, Paine defends the representational form of government. He posits that all men are born with God-given rights that cannot be taken from them by any government. Thomas Paine was a devout deist. That is, he believed in God, not because of faith, but rather because of the rational empirical evidence that the natural world provides. The Age of Reason was Paine's treatise on religion.

Notă biografică

Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain[1]) (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736]- June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain.[2] His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights.[3] Historian Saul K. Padover described him as "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".[4] Born in Thetford in the English county of Norfolk, Paine migrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. Virtually every rebel read (or listened to a reading of) his powerful pamphlet Common Sense (1776), proportionally the all-time best-selling[5][6] American title, which catalysed the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain. His The American Crisis (1776-1783) was a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series. Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said: "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain".[7] Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. He wrote Rights of Man (1791), in part a defense of the French Revolution against its critics. His attacks on Anglo-Irish conservative writer Edmund Burke led to a trial and conviction in absentia in England in 1792 for the crime of seditious libel. The British government of William Pitt the Younger, worried by the possibility that the French Revolution might spread to England, had begun suppressing works that espoused radical philosophies. Paine's work, which advocated the right of the people to overthrow their government, was duly targeted, with a writ for his arrest issued in early 1792. Paine fled to France in September where, despite not being able to speak French, he was quickly elected to the French National Convention. The Girondists regarded him as an ally. Consequently, the Montagnards, especially Maximilien Robespierre, regarded him as an enemy. In December 1793, he was arrested and was taken to Luxembourg Prison in Paris. While in prison, he continued to work on The Age of Reason (1793-1794). James Monroe, a future President of the United States, used his diplomatic connections to get Paine released in November 1794. Paine became notorious because of his pamphlets. The Age of Reason, in which he advocated deism, promoted reason and free thought and argued against institutionalized religion in general and Christian doctrine in particular. He published the pamphlet Agrarian Justice (1797), discussing the origins of property and introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income through a one-time inheritance tax on landowners. In 1802, he returned to the U.S. When he died on June 8, 1809 only six people attended his funeral as he had been ostracized for his ridicule of Christianity

Cuprins

The Thomas Paine Reader - Edited by Michael Foot and Isaac Kramnick Editors' Introduction: The Life, Ideology and Legacy of Thomas Paine
Paine's Writings:
1. The Case of the Officers of Excise (1772)
2. African Slavery in American (1775)
3. Reflections on the Life and Death of Lord Clive (1775)
4. Liberty Tree (1775)5. Common Sense (1776)
6. The American Crisis (1776-83)
7. Public Good (1780)
8. Six Letters to Rhode Island (1782-3)
9. Letter to the Abbé Raynal (1782)
10. Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper Money (1786)
11. The Rights of Man (1791-2)
12. Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation (1792)
13. An Essay for the Use of New Republicans in Their Opposition to Monarchy (1792)
14. Reasons for Preserving the Life of Louis Capet (1793)
15. The Age of Reason, Part One (1794)
16. Dissertation on First Principles of Government (1795)
17. Agrarian Justice (1795)
18. Letter to George Washington (1795)
19. To the Citizens of the United States (1802-3)
20. The Construction of Iron Bridges (1803)
21. Constitutional Reform (1805)

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Demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine was an inspiration to Americans in their struggle for independence. This book contains Paine's major works including "The Rights of Man", "Common Sense", and the first part of "The Age of Reason".