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Author Dolan, Neal.

Title Emerson's liberalism / Neal Dolan
Published Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 341 pages)
Series Studies in American thought and culture
Studies in American thought and culture.
Contents Progress -- Reason I, science -- Reason II, virtue -- Property, culture -- Reason III, skepticism -- Limited government -- Natural rights, civil society -- Empiricism -- Liberty, commerce
Summary Annotation Emersons Liberalism explains why Ralph Waldo Emerson has been and remains the central literary voice of American culture: he gave ever-fresh and lasting expression to its most fundamental and widely shared liberal values. Liberalism, after all, is more than a political philosophy: it is a form of civilization, a set of values, a culture, a way of representing and living in the world. This book makes explicit what has long been implicit in Americas embrace of Emerson.<br /> Neal Dolan offers the first comprehensive and historically informed exposition of all of Ralph Waldo Emersons writings as a contribution to the theory and practice of liberal culture. Rather than projecting twentieth-century viewpoints onto the past, he restores Emersons great body of work to the classical liberal contexts that most decisively shaped its general political-cultural outlookthe libertarian-liberalism of John Locke, the Scottish Enlightenment, the American founders, and the American Whigs.<br /> In addition to in-depth consideration of Emersons journals and lectures, Dolan provides original commentary on many of Emersons 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 . He considers Emersons distinctive elaborations of foundational liberal valuesprogress, reason, work, property, limited government, rights, civil society, liberty, commerce, and empiricism. And he argues that Emersons ideas are a morally bracing and spiritually inspiring resource for the ongoing sustenance of American culture and civilization, reminding us of the depth, breadth, and strength of our common liberal inheritance.<br />
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Political and social views
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 fast
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. swd
Subject Liberalism in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Literature.
Literature
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
Literature, Modern
Literature
Liberalism in literature
Political and social views
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008038489
ISBN 9780299228033
0299228037
9786612270451
6612270454
1282270451
9781282270459