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Emerson and Self-Reliance

Emerson and Self-Reliance

Kateb, George

Paperback

Series: Modernity and Political Thought

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0742521451
ISBN13: 9780742521452
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Apr 1 2002
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great moral philosopher. One of his principle contributions is the theory of self-reliance, a view of democratic individuality. During much of his life, Emerson was considered a radical thinker, and his opposition to established religious opinion was scandalous. Emerson's deep commitment to individualism was at the root of his critique, and his articulation of individualism was constant, whether aimed against the group mind or against institutional constrictions. 'Nietzsche was Emerson's best reader, ' and George Kateb provides an accessible reading of Emerson that is friendly to the interests of Nietzsche and to later Nietzscheans such as Weber, Heidegger, Arendt, and Foucault.

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