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Lewis and Clark had struggled across the high Rockies in present-day Montana and Idaho, but their route had been too perilous for wagon trains to follow. In the heroic tradition of Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage comes the story of Robert Stuart and his trailblazing discovery of the Oregon Trail. It is a unique addition to recent works that explore the development of Anglo-American political theory in the postwar period neither wholly polemical nor simply an intellectual history, the work is attentive to the 'how' of scholarly reading.Book Synopsis Resurrecting a pivotal moment in American history, Across the Great Divide tells the triumphant never-before-told story of the young Scottish fur trader and explorer who discovered the way West, changing the face of the country forever. " Across the Great Divide is an intelligent and innovative analysis of two traditions of thought typically deemed incommensurable to one another.
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makes space for further discussion about how political theory navigates its own disciplinary divides, and for this it is a laudable intervention." "Arnold's argument is.admirable for the clarity of the position which it articulates. Donahue, author of Unfreedom for All: How the World's Injustices Harm You Yet Across the Great Divide has done it! Jeremy Arnold explores uncharted waters, and his defense of an aporetic form of cross-tradition theorizing will ignite debate for years to come." "A lucidly argued book that sympathizes with both the analytical and continental traditions and has something new and exciting to say about them? It seems improbable. Paulina Ochoa Espejo, author of The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State But why must they choose? In his excellent Across the Great Divide, Jeremy Arnold's lucid prose lowers the entry barriers to either tradition and helps theorists see past the prejudices that can prevent them from trying to bridge the gap." "Political theorists often feel pushed to join the ranks of either analytic or continental political theory. Paul Patton, author of Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics Jeremy Arnold proposes a novel way to think about the purpose and the methods of political theory and a new attitude to enable different and even incommensurable approaches to old problems." "This outstanding and original contribution to the growing literature on analytic and continental approaches to political theory shows by examples the benefits and limits of cross-tradition theorizing. By outlining the failings of "political realism" as a synthetic cross-tradition approach to political theory and by modeling an aporetic mode of engagement, Arnold shows how we can better understand and address the pressing political issues of civil freedom and state justice today. Rather than advocating a synthesis of these philosophical modes, author Jeremy Arnold argues for aporetic cross-tradition theorizing: bringing together both traditions in order to show how each is at once necessary and limited.Īcross the Great Divide engages with a range of fundamental political concepts and theorists-from state legitimacy and violence in the work of Stanley Cavell, to personal freedom and its civic institutionalization in Philip Pettit and Hannah Arendt, and justice in John Rawls and Jacques Derrida-not only illustrating the shortcomings of theoretical synthesis but also demonstrating a productive alternative.
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Across the Great Divide offers an accessible and compelling account of how this split has shaped the field of political philosophy and suggests means of addressing it. The division between analytic and continental political theory remains as sharp as it is wide, rendering basic problems seemingly intractable.