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"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."
- Henry Bolingbroke
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ZIN Product Number: 10690118
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 Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195109155
Release Date: Jan 5, 1997
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This book traces a provocative line from Emerson's work on race, reform, and identity to work by three influential African-American thinkers - W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cornel West - each of whom offers subtle engagement with both the tradition of written protest and the critique of liberalism Emerson shaped. Emerson has been cast in recent debate as either an antinomian or an ideologue - as either subversive of institutional controls or indebted to capitalism. Here, Anita Haya Patterson contributes a more nuanced view, probing Emerson's record and its cultural and historical matrix to document a fundamental rhetoric of contradiction - a strategic aligning of opposed political concepts - that enabled him to both affirm and critique elements of the liberal democratic model. A work of striking originality and breadth, From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest will make invigorating reading for scholars and students of American Studies, American political philosophy, and African-American Studies.
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| | | |  | | | | Introduction: Reconciling Race and Rights | 3 | | 1 | Defining the Public: Representative Men | 11 | | 2 | Property and the Body in Nature | 24 | | 3 | The Poetics of Contradiction: Religious and Political Emblems in "The American Scholar" | 50 | | 4 | "Self-Reliance": The Ethical Demand for Reform | 81 | | 5 | Locating the Limits of Consent in "Friendship" | 99 | | 6 | The Claims of Double-Consciousness: Race, Nationalism, and the Problem of Political Obligation | 126 | | 7 | W. E. B. Du Bois and the Critique of Liberal Nationalism | 159 | | 8 | Martin Luther King, Jr.: Publicity, Disobedience, and the Revitalization of American Democratic Culture | 177 | | Epilogue | 198 | | Notes | 201 | | Index | 251 |
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Afro-Americans, Intellectual life, Emerson, Ralph Waldo,, 1803-1882, Influence, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Political Philosophy, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Literary Criticism, American - General, Race relations, United States, Intellectual life, Democracy, Civil rights, Afro-Americans
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