Making the American self : Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln /
Daniel Howe considers the ideas Americans once had about a proper construction of the self. Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Horace Bushnell, Horace Mann, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Dorothea Dix, Frederick Douglass, among others, engaged in di...
| Основен автор: | Howe, Daniel Walker. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1997.
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| Серия: |
Studies in cultural history.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
Book review (H-Net) |
Съдържание:
- Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the problem of human nature
- The American founders and the Scottish enlightenment
- The political psychology of The Federalist
- The emerging ideal of self-improvement
- Self-made men: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
- Shaping the selves of others
- The platonic quest in New England
- Margaret Fuller's heroic ideal of womanhood
- The constructed self against the state.