The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern AmericaUniv of North Carolina Press, 1994 - 366 páginas In this provocative book, Wilfred McClay considers the long-standing tension between individualism and social cohesion in conceptions of American culture. Exploring ideas of unity and diversity as they have evolved since the Civil War, he illuminates the |
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Grand Review | 9 |
Paradoxes of Antebellum Individualism | 40 |
The Prisonhouse of Self | 74 |
Ambivalent Consolidators | 105 |
The Search for Disinterestedness | 149 |
The Mind in Exile | 189 |
Guardians of the Self | 226 |
The Hipster and the Organization Man | 269 |
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