Emerson's liberalism

Emerson's liberalism

by Dolan, Neal

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Ralph Waldo Emerson remains a central literary voice of American culture because he gave lasting expression to its most fundamental and widely shared liberal values. Liberalism is a form of civilization, a set of values, a culture, a way of representing and living in the world. This is an exposition of Emerson's writings as a contribution to the theory and practice of liberal culture. It looks at Emerson's body of work within the classical liberal contexts that shaped its general political-cult…

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  • Full title :Emerson's liberalism / Neal Dolan.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson remains a central literary voice of American culture because he gave lasting expression to its most fundamental and widely shared liberal values. Liberalism is a form of civilization, a set of values, a culture, a way of representing and living in the world. This is an exposition of Emerson's writings as a contribution to the theory and practice of liberal culture. It looks at Emerson's body of work within the classical liberal contexts that shaped its general political-cultural outlook--the libertarian-liberalism of John Locke, the Scottish Enlightenment, the American founders, and the American Whigs. It considers Emerson's distinctive elaborations of foundational liberal values--progress, reason, work, property, limited government, rights, civil society, liberty, commerce, and empiricism. In addition to Emerson's journals and lectures, it provides commentary on many of Emerson's most celebrated published works, including Nature, the "Divinity School Address," "History," "Compensation," "Experience," the political addresses of the early 1840s, "An Address . . . on . . . The Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies," Representative Men, English Traits, and The Conduct of Life.

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  • Publication Date:©2009.

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  • Description:xi, 341 pages ; : 23 cm.

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  • ISBN:9780299228040, 0299228045, 9780299228002, 0299228002
  • oclc:ocn253837266
  • LC Classification:PS1642.S58
  • Dewey Decimal:814/.3

Table of Contents

Progress -- Reason I, science -- Reason II, virtue -- Property, culture -- Reason III, skepticism -- Limited government -- Natural rights, civil society -- Empiricism -- Liberty, commerce.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc Emerson, Ralph Waldo Liberalism Liberalism in literature Libéralisme dans la littérature Political and social views

Writers

Dolan, Neal

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