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| | US Political Thought, Lecture 2 |
 | | Indeed, Hartz believes that it is not the middle-class but the upper-class that is frustrated, trying to break out of the egalitarian confines of middle class life but suffering guilt and failure in the process (8). |
 | | Hartz is concerned that American liberalism, born at the height of the power of natural rights philosophy, possesses a fixed, dogmatic (9), compulsive and insular character poorly suited to Americas post-war position as a world power. |
 | | Hartz asserts the preeminence of tradition in American life, only to declare that the specific tradition to be preserved is that of atomistic social freedom (62), a tradition of new beginnings, daring enterprises, and explicitly stated principles... bearing the marks of an antihistorical rationalism (48). |
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