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A political companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Title
- A political companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk.
- Publication
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2011.
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- Description
- xi, 487 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Political companions to great American authors
- Uniform Title
- Political companions to great American authors.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-461) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-4088
- ISBN
- 9780813134307 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813134307 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011021731
- OCLC
- YBP 2011021731
- Title
- A political companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk.
- Imprint
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2011.
- Series
- Political companions to great American authorsPolitical companions to great American authors.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-461) and index.
- Added Author
- Levine, Alan, 1961-Malachuk, Daniel S.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-4088