| FB-52382-06 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Paul Anthony Rahe | The Political Psychology of the Modern Republic | 5/1/2006 - 12/31/2006 | $24,000.00 | Paul | Anthony | Rahe | | | | University of Tulsa | Tulsa | OK | 74104-9700 | USA | 2005 | Political Science, General | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 24000 | 0 | 24000 | 0 |
My area of interest is the history of self-government from antiquity to the present day. For some time now, I have been working on a book based on an unorthodox reading of Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Tocqueville with regard to the political psychology underpinning the modern republic. I have in draft six of the nine projected chapters (those dealing with Montesquieu’s discovery of the modern republic and his attempt to describe its nature and the passions animating it), and I want to spend my sabbatical polishing these six chapters and writing the three yet to be begun. I am persuaded that Montesquieu’s muted and hitherto unrecognized critique of the English form of government has profound implications for the American prospect. |