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In this sweeping reinterpretation of American political culture, James Block offers a new perspective on the formation of the modern American self and society. Block roots both self and society in the concept of agency, rather than liberty, and dispenses with the national myth of the "sacred cause of liberty"--with the Declaration of Independence as its "American scripture." Instead, he recovers the early modern conception of agency as the true synthesis emerging from America's Protestant and liberal cultural foundations. Block traces agency doctrine from its pre-Commonwealth English origins through its development into the American mainstream culture on the eve of the twentieth century. The...
This 2007 book debates about religion and democracy through a cultural history of nineteenth-century revival practice.
A penetrating literary and philosophical examination of major figures in the development of American intellectual culture, from Emerson to Santayana
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List for March 7, 1844, is the list for September 10, 1842, amended in manuscript.
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