Format:
Online-Ressource (672 p)
ISBN:
9780674008830
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The American Narrative in Crisis -- I. The English Origins of the American Self and Society -- 2. The Early Puritan Insurgents and the Origins of Agency -- 3. The Protestant Revolutionaries and the Emerging Society of Agents -- 4. Thomas Hobbes and the Founding of the Liberal Politics of Agency -- 5. John Locke and the Mythic Society of Free Agents -- II. The Ascendancy of Agency and the First New Nation -- 6. The Great Awakening and the Emergent Culture of Agency -- 7. The Revolutionary Triumph of Agency -- III. The Dilemma of Nationhood -- 8. The Liberal Idyll amidst Republican Realities -- 9. From Liberation to Reversal in a World without Bounds -- IV. The Creation of an Agency Civilization -- 10. National Revival as the Crucible of Agency Character -- 11. From Sectarian Discord to Civil Religion -- 12. The Protestant Agent in Liberal Economics -- 13. John Dewey and the Modern Synthesis -- Conclusion: The Recovery of Agency -- Notes -- Index.
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674022201
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674008830
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Nation of Agents : The American Path to a Modern Self and Society
Language:
English
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