From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of ProtestThis 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. 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, 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. Drawing richly on topics in political philosophy, law, religion, and cultural history, Patterson examines the nature and implications of Emerson's contradictory rhetoric in parts I and II. In part III she considers Emerson's legacy from the perspective of African-American intellectual history, identifying fresh continuities and crucial discontinuities between the canonical strain of protest writing Emerson helped establish and African-American literary and philosophical traditions. |
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Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest Anita Haya Patterson. This page intentionally left blank Contents INTRODUCTION Reconciling Race and Rights PART I OWNERSHIP ONE.
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... OWNERSHIP ONE Defining the Public : Representative Men TWO Property and the Body in Nature THREE 3 I I 24 The Poetics of Contradiction : Religious and Political Emblems in " The American Scholar " 50 PART II POLITICAL OBLIGATION FOUR ...
... OWNERSHIP ONE Defining the Public : Representative Men TWO Property and the Body in Nature THREE 3 I I 24 The Poetics of Contradiction : Religious and Political Emblems in " The American Scholar " 50 PART II POLITICAL OBLIGATION FOUR ...
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... ownership and self - ownership , individual autonomy , and the notion that legitimate government and community are created by voluntary acts of consent to social contract . In particular , I argue that this political critique is ...
... ownership and self - ownership , individual autonomy , and the notion that legitimate government and community are created by voluntary acts of consent to social contract . In particular , I argue that this political critique is ...
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... alist rhetoric . My own reading of Emerson and his legacy makes the precise terms of their critique comprehensible to a wider audience . This page intentionally left blank Ownership This page intentionally left INTRODUCTION 7.
... alist rhetoric . My own reading of Emerson and his legacy makes the precise terms of their critique comprehensible to a wider audience . This page intentionally left blank Ownership This page intentionally left INTRODUCTION 7.
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