The Emerson effect : individualism and submission in America
This work presents a revisionist account of Ralph Waldo Emerson's influential thought on individualism, in particular his political psychology. It illuminates contradictions in Emerson's political outlook, and the conjunctions of liberal and authoritarian ideology they produced.
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A Note on Emerson's Texts Acknowledgments Introduction 1: The Submissive Center 2: The Authoritarian Language of Liberal Religion 3: Democratic Prophecy and Corporate Individualism 4: Friendly Inequalities: Emerson and Straight Homoeroticism 5: Loving Bondage: The Authority of Domestic Remoteness 6: Market Despotism: "The Poet Affirms the Laws" 7: Corporatism and the Genes of Liberal Racism 8: Continuations: Liberation from Management Notes Index