Ronald W. Dworkin

The Rise of the Imperial Self

America's Culture Wars in Augustinian Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

The Rise of the Imperial Self establishes a geneaology of aristocracy and places America firmly within an aristocratic tradition originally articulated by St. Augustine, but adapted to American society by Alexis de Tocqueville. Ronald W. Dworkin then traces the evolution of American culture from Tocqueville's America, when American aristocracy was defined by a love of something beyond the self to today's preoccupation with individuality, self-expression, autonomy, and self-esteem-the "imperial self."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780847682195
• ISBN-10: 0847682196
• Artikelnr.: 31201014

Autorenporträt

Ronald W. Dworkin is a fellow at the Institue for American Values and co-director of the Calvert Institute for Policy Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: America and the City of Man Chapter 3
Expressive Individualism, Manicheism, and the "Higher Self" Chapter 4 The
Expressive Individualist, the Donatists, and the Honor of Work Chapter 5
Christianity, Public Opinion, and the Republican Principle in the
Imagination of Tocqueville's American Chapter 6 Pelagianism in the Society
of Expressive Individualism Chapter 7 Donatism in the Society of Expressive
Individualism Chapter 8 Platonism in the Society of Expressive
Individualism Chapter 9 The Expressive Individualist and Self-Esteem
Chapter 10 The Expressive Individualist and the Spirit of Ressentiment Part
11 Part II: America and the City of God Chapter 12 The Creation of the
Aristocrat in the City of God Chapter 13 Tocqueville's American as an
Aristocrat in the City of God Chapter 14 The Fall of the Aristocrat in the
City of God and the Rise of the "Organization Man" Chapter 15 The Rise of
the Imperial Self Chapter 16 Contents Chapter 17 Bibliography Chapter 18
Index