Table of Contents:
  • Discursive democracy and the culture of reform
  • Religious pluralism and the origins of the culture of reform
  • Sincerity and publicity in the Grimke-Beecher debate
  • Garrison, Douglass, and the problem of politics
  • Emerson's self-reliance as a theory of community
  • Epilogue : sincerity and pluralism in critical conversation.