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Facing the other : ethical disruption and the American mind /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bolton, Linda, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2004]
Series:Horizons in theory and American culture.
Subjects:
Ethics > United States > History > Sources.
Political ethics > United States > History > Sources.
Criticism, Textual.
Other (Philosophy)
Ethics in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Justice in literature.
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783 > Sources.
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865 > Sources.
United States > Intellectual life > 1783-1865 > Sources.
Table of Contents:
  • Towards confronting "the hatred by the other human"
  • Facing alterity : the ethics of conversion in Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American farmer
  • In the name of "justice and humanity" : Thomas Paine's ethical envisionings of the American Republic
  • Standing in the "field of freedom" : Thomas Jefferson and the reverberations of that declaratory promise
  • Fugitive poseurs : the native eloquence of Frederick Douglass and Sarah Winnemucca
  • In the presence of the great American criminal : John Brown's triumphant failure at Harpers Ferry.