A political companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson /

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From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned-and renounced-as one of the United States' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation's liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson's political acti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Levine, Alan, 1961-, Malachuk, Daniel S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2011.
Colección:Political companions to great American authors.
Temas:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Political and social views.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882
Emerson, Ralph Waldo > 1803-1882
1800-1899
Democracy > United States > History > 19th century.
Democracy in literature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Democracy
Democracy in literature
Intellectual life
Political and social views
Politisches Denken
United States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the new history of Emerson's politics and his philosophy of self-reliance / Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk
  • pt. 1. Classics on Emerson's politics
  • Emerson: the all and the one / Wilson Carey McWilliams
  • Emerson and the inhibitions of democracy / Judith N. Shklar
  • Self-reliance, politics, and society / George Kateb
  • Aversive thinking: Emersonian representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche / Stanley Cavell
  • Part 2. Emerson's self-reliance properly understood
  • Self-reliance and complicity: Emerson's ethics of citizenship / Jack Turner
  • The limits of self-reliance: Emerson, slavery, and abolition / James H. Read
  • Emerson, self-reliance, and the politics of democracy / Len Gougeon
  • Part III. The stubborn reality of Emerson's transcendentalism
  • Skeptical triangle? a comparison of the political thought of Emerson, Nietzsche, and Montaigne / Alan M. Levine
  • Emerson's politics, retranscendentalized / Daniel S. Malachuk
  • Emerson's transcendental gaze and the "disagreeable particulars" of slavery: vision and the costs of idealism / Shannon L. Mariotti
  • Part IV. Emerson and liberal democracy
  • Property in being: liberalism and the language of ownership in Emerson's writing / Neal Dolan
  • Standing for others: reform and representation in Emerson's political thought / Jason Frank
  • Emerson's democratic platonism in representative men / G. Borden Flanagan.

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