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A nation of agents : the American path to a modern self and society /
In this sweeping reinterpretation of American political culture, James Block offers a new perspective on the formation of the modern American self and society. Block roots both self and society in the concept of agency, rather than liberty, and dispenses with the national myth of the "sacred ca...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The American narrative in crisis
- I. The English origins of the American self and society. The early Puritan insurgents and the origins of agency
- The protestant revolutionaries and the emerging society of agents
- Thomas Hobbes and the founding of the liberal politics of agency
- John Locke and the mythic society of free agents
- II. The ascendancy of agency and the free new nation. The Great Awakening and the emergent culture of agency
- The revolutionary triumph of agency
- III. The dilemma of nationhood. The liberal idyll amidst republican realities
- From liberation to reversal in a world without bounds
- IV. The creation of an agency civilization. National revival as the crucible of agency character
- From sectarian discord to civil religion
- The protestant agent in liberal economics
- John Dewey and the modern synthesis
- Conclusion : The recovery of agency.