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A political companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk.
Van Pelt Library PS1642.P64 P65 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Political companions to great American authors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Political and social views.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
- Democracy.
- History.
- Political and social views.
- United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
- United States.
- Intellectual life.
- Democracy--United States--History--19th century.
- Democracy in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 487 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2011]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-461) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813134307
- 0813134307
- 9780813134321
- 0813134323
- OCLC:
- 724674546
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