Degree Year
2017
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Politics
Advisor(s)
Jade Schiff
Keywords
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Politics
Abstract
In this paper, I offer a re-reading of Thomas Paine's influential pamphlet Common Sense (1776) and argue his idiosyncratic notion of common sense is amenable to a radical democratic theory of political practice.
Repository Citation
Ecker, Jordan P., "Thomas Paine's (Un)Common Sense and the Politics of Radical Disagreement" (2017). Honors Papers. 210.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/210
