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A tolerable anarchy : rebels, reactionaries, and the making of American freedom
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A tolerable anarchy : rebels, reactionaries, and the making of American freedom / Jedediah Purdy.
ISBN
9781400044474
1400044472
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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.
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Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-283) and index.
Contents
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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