Seizing Citizenship

Frederick Douglass's Abolitionist Republicanism

Philip Yaure (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-777672-8 (ISBN)

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In the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass maintained that enslaved Black Americans were already American citizens. Through a systematic analysis of his political writings from the 1840s through the 1890s, Philip Yaure shows that Douglass' declaration of Black Americans' citizenship is the locus of a profound innovation in republican political philosophy. Seizing Citizenship argues that Frederick Douglass reimagined the republican concept of citizenship, on which persons are citizens because they contribute to the polity, to cast the everyday resistance of Black Americans against slavery and white supremacy as activity that constitutes them as American citizens. The resistance of Black Americans forged them into a people with the collective power to remake America's civic ethos in a racially just and inclusive fashion. Douglass advanced an abolitionist republicanism, on which persons seize standing as free citizens of a free polity through the struggle to dismantle the oppressive institutions that dominate and exploit them. Douglass's republican politics strives not to overcome our vulnerability to one another, but instead to deepen such vulnerability on terms conducive to our shared emancipation and collective flourishing.

Philip Yaure is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Tech, where he specializes in the history of African American political philosophy, philosophy of race, and social philosophy. He completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy (Dissertation: To Reforge the Nation: Emancipatory Politics and Antebellum Black Abolitionism) at Columbia University in 2020. His writing appears in venues including Ethics, the Journal of Politics, Philosophical Studies, American Political Thought, and The Pluralist.

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Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Oxford New Histories of Philosophy
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 14 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	0-19-777672-8 / 0197776728
ISBN-13	978-0-19-777672-8 / 9780197776728
Zustand	Neuware