Table of Contents
Series Foreword vii
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction: The New History of Emerson's Politics and His Philosophy of Self-Reliance Alan M. Levine Daniel S. Malachuk 1
Part I Classics on Emerson's Politics
1 Emerson: The All and the One Wilson Carey McWilliams 43
2 Emerson and the Inhibitions of Democracy Judith N. Shklar 53
3 Self-Reliance, Politics, and Society George Kateb 69
4 Aversive Thinking: Emersonian Representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche Stanley Cavell 91
Part II Emerson's Self-Reliance Properly Understood
5 Self-Reliance and Complicity: Emerson's Ethics of Citizenship Jack Turner 125
6 The Limits of Self-Reliance: Emerson, Slavery, and Abolition James H. Read 152
7 Emerson, Self-Reliance, and the Politics of Democracy Len Gougeon 185
Part III The Stubborn Reality of Emerson's Transcendentalism
8 Skeptical Triangle? A Comparison of the Political Thought of Emerson, Nietzsche, and Montaigne Alan M. Levine 223
9 Emerson's Politics, Retranseendentalized Daniel S. Malachuk 265
10 Emerson's Transcendental Gaze and the "Disagreeable Particulars" of Slavery: Vision and the Costs of Idealism Shannon L. Mariotti 305
Part IV Emerson and Liberal Democracy
11 Property in Being: Liberalism and the Language of Ownership in Emerson's Writing Neal Dolan 343
12 Standing for Others: Reform and Representation in Emerson's Political Thought Jason Frank 383
13 Emerson's Democratic Platonisin in Representative Men G. Borden Flanagan 415
Selected Bibliography 451
List of Contributors 463
Index 467