A political companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
By: edited by Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk
Series: Political companions to great American authors; Political companions to great American authors
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780813134307; 9780813134321
Subjects: Intellectual life; Democracy in literature; Political and social views; Democracy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-461) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the new history of Emerson's politics and his philosophy of self-reliance / Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk; title: Pt. 1. Classics on Emerson's politics; title: Emerson: the all and the one / Wilson Carey McWilliams; title: Emerson and the inhibitions of democracy / Judith N. Shklar; title: Self-reliance, politics, and society / George Kateb; title: Aversive thinking: Emersonian representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche / Stanley Cavell; title: Part 2. Emerson's self-reliance properly understood; title: Self-reliance and complicity: Emerson's ethics of citizenship / Jack Turner; title: The limits of self-reliance: Emerson, slavery, and abolition / James H. Read; title: Emerson, self-reliance, and the politics of democracy / Len Gougeon; title: Part III. The stubborn reality of Emerson's transcendentalism; title: Skeptical triangle? a comparison of the political thought of Emerson, Nietzsche, and Montaigne / Alan M. Levine; title: Emerson's politics, retranscendentalized / Daniel S. Malachuk; title: Emerson's transcendental gaze and the "disagreeable particulars" of slavery: vision and the costs of idealism / Shannon L. Mariotti; title: Part IV. Emerson and liberal democracy; title: Property in being: liberalism and the language of ownership in Emerson's writing / Neal Dolan; title: Standing for others: reform and representation in Emerson's political thought / Jason Frank; title: Emerson's democratic platonism in representative men / G. Borden Flanagan.