Facing the other
Bolton, Linda, 1955-
Facing the other ethical disruption and the American mind / [electronic resource] : Linda Bolton. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004. - xi, 209 p. - Horizons in theory and American culture . - Horizons in theory and American culture. .
Includes bibliographical references ( p. 199-204) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Ethics--History--United States--Sources.
Political ethics--History--United States--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.
Electronic books.
E302.1 / .B65 2004eb
172/.0973
Facing the other ethical disruption and the American mind / [electronic resource] : Linda Bolton. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004. - xi, 209 p. - Horizons in theory and American culture . - Horizons in theory and American culture. .
Includes bibliographical references ( p. 199-204) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Ethics--History--United States--Sources.
Political ethics--History--United States--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.
Electronic books.
E302.1 / .B65 2004eb
172/.0973