Why have the issues of religious liberty, free speech and constitutional privacy come to figure so prominently in our society? What are the origins of the basic principles of our constitutional law? This work develops a general theory of constitutional interpretation based on an original synthesis of political theory, history, law, and a larger approach to the interpretation of culture. Presenting both historical and theoretical arguments in support of a theory that affirms the moral sovereignty of the people, Richards maintains that toleration, or respect for conscience and individual...
Why have the issues of religious liberty, free speech and constitutional privacy come to figure so prominently in our society? What are the origins of...
In this remarkable study, David A. J. Richards combines an interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy, and constitutional analysis to explain the background, development, and growing impact of two of the most important and challenging human rights movements of our time, feminism and gay rights. Richards argues that both movements are extensions of rights-based dissent, rooted in antebellum abolitionist feminism that condemned both American racism and sexism. He sees the progressive role of such radical dissent as an emancipated moral voice in the American constitutional...
In this remarkable study, David A. J. Richards combines an interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy, and constitutional analysis ...
When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the -new immigration- from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms -nonvisibly- black.
The first study of its kind, Italian American explores the acculturation process of Italian immigrants in terms of then-current patterns of European and American racism. Delving into the political and legal context of flawed liberal nationalism both in Italy (the Risorgimento) and the United States (Reconstruction...
When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the -new immigration- from southern and eastern rather th...
This work argues that tragedy is at once art and science an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical inquiry into human psychology, whose subject matter is the dilemma of manhood under democracy. The author expands discussion of the idea of the tragic to include music drama in general and the operas of Verdi in particular, and explores the indispensable contribution of tragedy to an understanding of personal and political psychology through discussion of: the political theory of structural injustice resting on the suppression of voice, a developmental psychology of gender, and an...
This work argues that tragedy is at once art and science an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical inquiry into human psychology, whose subjec...
This work argues that tragedy is at once art and science an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical inquiry into human psychology, whose subject matter is the dilemma of manhood under democracy. The author expands discussion of the idea of the tragic to include music drama in general and the operas of Verdi in particular, and explores the indispensable contribution of tragedy to an understanding of personal and political psychology through discussion of: the political theory of structural injustice resting on the suppression of voice, a developmental psychology of gender, and an...
This work argues that tragedy is at once art and science an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical inquiry into human psychology, whose subjec...
