Facing the other : ethical disruption and the American mind /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bolton, Linda, 1955-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2004]
Subjects:	United States > Intellectual life > 1783-1865 > Sources. United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865 > Sources. United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783 > Sources. Justice in literature. Liberty in literature. Ethics in literature. Other (Philosophy) Criticism, Textual. Political ethics > United States > History > Sources. Ethics > United States > History > Sources. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Towards confronting "the hatred by the other human"
Facing alterity : the ethics of conversion in Crevecoeur'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.