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A tolerable anarchy : rebels, reactionaries, and the making of American freedom / Jedediah Purdy.
Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 294 p. ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781400044474
- 1400044472
- Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- Liberty -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Liberty -- Philosophy
- National characteristics, American
- United States -- Politics and government
- Wirtschaft
- Politik
- Freiheit
- USA
- Liberty -- Philosophy
- Liberty -- Political aspects
- Liberty -- Social aspects
- National characteristics, American
- Political science
- United States
- JC599.U5 P87 2009
Contents:
Summary: From the author of "For Common Things" comes a provocative look at the meaning of American freedom. Purdy works from the stories of individuals: Frederick Douglass urging Americans to extend freedom to slaves, Ralph Waldo Emerson arguing for self-fulfillment, and others.
Introduction: The sensation of freedom -- Declarations of independence -- The search for civic dignity -- War and its equivalents -- Is freedom empty? Citizenship, sodomy, and the meaning of life -- American utopias -- The economics of 1776, and today -- The value of freedom -- Fragments of a free economy.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | JC 599 .U5 P87 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5110621 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-283) and index.
From the author of "For Common Things" comes a provocative look at the meaning of American freedom. Purdy works from the stories of individuals: Frederick Douglass urging Americans to extend freedom to slaves, Ralph Waldo Emerson arguing for self-fulfillment, and others.
Introduction: The sensation of freedom -- Declarations of independence -- The search for civic dignity -- War and its equivalents -- Is freedom empty? Citizenship, sodomy, and the meaning of life -- American utopias -- The economics of 1776, and today -- The value of freedom -- Fragments of a free economy.
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