TY - BOOK AU - Bolton,Linda ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Facing the other: ethical disruption and the American mind T2 - Horizons in theory and American culture AV - E302.1 .B65 2004eb U1 - 172/.0973 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Baton Rouge PB - Louisiana State University Press KW - Ethics KW - United States KW - History KW - Sources KW - Political ethics KW - Criticism, Textual KW - Other (Philosophy) KW - Ethics in literature KW - Liberty in literature KW - Justice in literature KW - Politics and government KW - 1775-1783 KW - 1783-1865 KW - Intellectual life KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/zegu/Doc?id=10408472 ER -