Format:
Online-Ressource (257 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0195109155
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9780195109153
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 bibliographical references (p. 201-249) and index
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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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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195109153
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe From Emerson to King : Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest
Language:
English
