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050 0 0 _aJA84.U5+
100 1 _aMalachuk, Daniel S.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aTwo cities
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe political thought of American transcendentalism /
_cDaniel S. Malachuk.
260 _aLawrence, Kansas :
_bUniversity Press of Kansas,
_c[2016]
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"This is an exploration of the political thought of the American transcendentalists focusing on Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller. They were writing at a time when the American state was thought of as sacred, the two cities of Augustine, the City of God and the City of Man, combined as one. Indeed the Augustinian metaphor was a powerful one, frequently invoked in this period. American republican democracy in the City of Man enabled citizens through their participation in the state to achieve something close to the spiritual status of the City of God. The transcendentalists, with their emphasis on the importance of individual freedom, did not accept this analysis, according to Daniel Malachuk. They looked at American democracy and saw much that did not support individual pursuit of goodness nor a society that approached the status of the City of God. For example, the continued existence of slavery hardly fit with a godly place. Malachuk argues that the separation between the City of God and the City of Man remains important to transcendentalists who thought that individuals needed to be given space by the state to pursue their individual development"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
_2bisacsh
650 0 _aTranscendentalism (New England)
650 0 _aPolitical science
_zUnited States
_xPhilosophy.
600 1 0 _aFuller, Margaret,
_d1810-1850
_xPolitical and social views.
600 1 0 _aThoreau, Henry David,
_d1817-1862
_xPolitical and social views.
600 1 0 _aEmerson, Ralph Waldo,
_d1803-1882
_xPolitical and social views.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/48226/
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Philosophy and Religion
999 _c2428
_d2428