Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 216
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Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-0-8476-8219-5 • Paperback • June 1996 • $67.00 • (£52.00)
Ronald W. Dworkin is a fellow at the Institue for American Values and co-director of the Calvert Institute for Policy Research.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part I: America and the City of Man
Chapter 3 Expressive Individualism, Manicheism, and the "Higher Self"
Chapter 4 The Expressive Individualist, the Donatists, and the Honor of Work
Chapter 5 Christianity, Public Opinion, and the Republican Principle in the Imagination of Tocqueville's American
Chapter 6 Pelagianism in the Society of Expressive Individualism
Chapter 7 Donatism in the Society of Expressive Individualism
Chapter 8 Platonism in the Society of Expressive Individualism
Chapter 9 The Expressive Individualist and Self-Esteem
Chapter 10 The Expressive Individualist and the Spirit of Ressentiment
Part 11 Part II: America and the City of God
Chapter 12 The Creation of the Aristocrat in the City of God
Chapter 13 Tocqueville's American as an Aristocrat in the City of God
Chapter 14 The Fall of the Aristocrat in the City of God and the Rise of the "Organization Man"
Chapter 15 The Rise of the Imperial Self
Chapter 16 Contents
Chapter 17 Bibliography
Chapter 18 Index
yields some starkingly original insights. . . . is plausible and obviously the product of considerable thought and erudition.
— First Things
This ambitious book finds a template for the "culture Wars " of contemporary America in the culture wars of late antiquity. Dworkin pursues his interesting thesis with creativity and with some success.
— Stuart Rosenbaum, Baylor University; Journal of Church and State, Vol. 41, No. 1 Winter 1999
An important contribution to the literature on the historical roots of expressive individualism. . . . the book has great breadth and depth and it covers a large intellectual territory. The book is especially useful for historians, philosophers and psychologists who are interested in the development and maintenance of the imperial self.
— Irene Switankowsky, University of Waterloo; Comptes Rendes
A brilliant and illuminating interpretation of contemporary America and the recent great transformation in the American character. Dworkin employs both the political vision of Tocqueville and the religious vision of Saint Augustine to explain our nation and ourselves with extraordinary originality, depth, and wisdom.
— James Kurth, Swarthmore College