Reconstructing America : The Symbol of

For too many people, America has become the primary symbol of all that is grotesque, deadening, & oppressive. It is time, says James Ceaser in this provocative book, to take America back, to reaffirm confidence in our principles, & to remind ourselves that the real America-- as opposed to the symbolic one-- has forged a system of liberal democratic government that has shaped the destiny of the modern world.

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
America as Degeneracy	p. 19
American Responses to the Degeneracy Thesis	p. 43
America in the Mirror of France: The Two Revolutions	p. 66
America as a Racial Symbol: The "New History" of Arthur de Gobineau	p. 87
From Ethnology to Multiculturalism	p. 160
Racialism Versus Political Science: The Tocqueville-Gobineau Exchange	p. 136
From America to Americanization: Images of America in German Thought	p. 162
Katastrophenhaft: Martin Heidegger's America	p. 187
America as the End of History	p. 214
America as Postmodern	p. 232
Conclusion	p. 245
Notes	p. 251
Index	p. 285
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Reconstructing America : The Symbol of America in Modern Thought

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