ISBN:
1429415665
,
9781429415668
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (257 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
W.E.B. Dubois Institute
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Patterson, Anita Haya From Emerson to King
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 Influence
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 Political and social views
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo Influence
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo Political and social views
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 Influence
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 Political and social views
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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African Americans Intellectual life
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Democracy United States
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African Americans Civil rights
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African Americans Intellectual life
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Democracy
;
African Americans Civil rights
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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African Americans ; Civil rights
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African Americans ; Intellectual life
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Democracy
;
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
;
Political and social views
;
Race relations
;
United States Race relations
;
United States Race relations
;
United States
;
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Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Introduction: Reconciling Race and Rights -- 1. Defining the Public: Representative Men -- 2. Property and the Body in Nature -- 3. The Poetics of Contradiction: Religious and Political Emblems in "The American Scholar" -- 4. "Self-Reliance": The Ethical Demand for Reform -- 5. Locating the Limits of Consent in "Friendship" -- 6. The Claims of Double-Consciousness: Race, Nationalism, and the Problem of Political Obligation -- 7. W.E.B. Du Bois and the Critique of Liberal Nationalism -- 8. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Publicity, Disobedience, and the Revitalization of American Democratic Culture.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-249) and index. - Description based on print version record
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