Overview
- Looks at nineteenth-century individualism via historical and conceptual engagement with the market
- Provides close studies of Emerson, Thoreau, and Sumner and each thinker's respective view of individualism
- Combines conceptual analysis and textual exegesis of Emerson, Thoreau, and Sumner with two historical surveys of the rise of individualism and the rise of market economy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book studies nineteenth-century American individualism and its relationship to the simultaneous rise of the market economy as articulated in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Graham Sumner. The argument of the book is that these thinkers offer distinct visions of individualism that reflect their respective understandings of the market, and provide thoughtful and insightful perspectives upon the promise and peril of this economic and social order. Looking back to Emerson, Thoreau, and Sumner furnishes valuable insights about the history of American political and social thought, as well as about the complexity of one of the most basic and prevalent relationships of modern life: that between the individual and the institutional complex of the market.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Luke Philip Plotica is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA with training in political theory and public law.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nineteenth-Century Individualism and the Market Economy
Book Subtitle: Individualist Themes in Emerson, Thoreau, and Sumner
Authors: Luke Philip Plotica
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62172-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62171-5Published: 01 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87247-6Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62172-2Published: 16 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 275
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Economic History