Facing the other
Subtitle: ethical disruption and the American mind
By: Linda Bolton.
Series: Horizons in theory and American culture
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Ethics -- United States -- History -- Sources.; Political ethics -- United States -- History -- Sources.; Criticism, Textual.; Other (Philosophy); Ethics in literature.; Liberty in literature.; Justice in literature.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Sources.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. 199-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Towards confronting "the hatred by the other human"; title: Facing alterity : the ethics of conversion in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American farmer; title: In the name of "justice and humanity" : Thomas Paine's ethical envisionings of the American Republic; title: Standing in the "field of freedom" : Thomas Jefferson and the reverberations of that declaratory promise; title: Fugitive poseurs : the native eloquence of Frederick Douglass and Sarah Winnemucca; title: In the presence of the great American criminal : John Brown's triumphant failure at Harpers Ferry.