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"Emerson's Bayonet"
- Author(s):
- Alan Lopez (see profile)
- Date:
- 2014
- Group(s):
- CLCS 18th-Century, GS Life Writing, HEP Teaching as a Profession, LLC 18th-Century French, LLC 19th-Century American, LLC Early American, LSL Language and Society, TC Digital Humanities, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
- Subject(s):
- Education, Higher, American literature, British literature, Comparative literature, Culture--Study and teaching, English literature, Language and languages, Literature--Philosophy, Philosophy, Campaign literature, Rhetoric, Literature--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- american literature, citizenship, emerson, empathy, ethics, formalism, hobbes, humanism, human rights, intellectual history, law and literature, literary history, literature and philosophy, narrative theory, property rights, pufendorf, reading, rights, rousseau, social contract, teaching, Academe, Cultural studies, Language, Literary theory, Literature and philosophy, Political literature, Teaching of literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GW26
- Abstract:
- The essay reads Ralph Waldo Emerson’s argument for a “nation of friends," in “Politics,” as Emerson’s response to his lament, also in “Politics,” that the “power of love, as the basis of the State, has never been tried.” By a careful reading of that essay, which includes locating “Politics” within the debate in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan between right and law, I argue for a new understanding of time and friendship in Emerson’s thought.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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