Why Political Theory Needs History: Dismantling the Liberal-Republican Distinction to Understand the Promise of American Democracy Although political scientists continue to distinguish a so-called Anglo-American liberal tradition from a so-called republican tradition, the distinction makes no sense in the context of American intellectual history. Kloppenberg will first discuss misunderstood figures such as John Adams, James Madison, and James Wilson to show the centrality of democracy for the most important political thinkers of the founding period, then fast forward to John Rawls, often considered the archetypal liberal, to show that after writing A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism, Rawls moved, in his understudied late work, in the direction of social democracy. James T. Kloppenberg was born in Denver and educated at Dartmouth (A.B. 1973) and Stanford (M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1980). He and his wife Mary have lived in Wellesley, MA, since 1980. In recognition of his teaching, he ha
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