UID:
almafu_9959238422002883
Format:
1 online resource (268 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-772418-3
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1-280-52913-X
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0-19-535517-2
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1-4294-1566-5
Series Statement:
W.E.B. Dubois Institute
Content:
This work explores Emerson's contribution to the debate on democracy, race and social reform. Emerson's writings, it argues, reveal a pattern of contradiction between fundamental individual rights and race as a factor impossible to dismiss in a consideration of democratic values.
Note:
Includes index.
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Previously issued in print: 1997.
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Contents; INTRODUCTION: Reconciling Race and Rights; ONE: Defining the Public: Representative Men; TWO: Property and the Body in Nature; THREE: The Poetics of Contradiction: Religious and Political Emblems in ""The American Scholar""; FOUR: ""Self-Reliance"": The Ethical Demand for Reform; FIVE: Locating the Limits of Consent in ""Friendship""; SIX: The Claims of Double-Consciousness: Race, Nationalism, and the Problem of Political Obligation; SEVEN: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Critique of Liberal Nationalism
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EIGHT: Martin Luther King Jr.: Publicity, Disobedience, and the Revitalization of American Democratic CultureEpilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-510915-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195109153.001.0001
