Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Michael Ignatieff

Four types of explanation for American exceptionalism ... :
  • a realist one, based in America’s exceptional power;
  • a cultural one, related to an American sense of Providential destiny;
  • an institutional one, based in America’s specific institutional organization; and finally
  • a political one, related to the supposedly distinctive conservatism and individualism of American political culture.

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