Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel FormRowman & Littlefield, 1990 - 271 من الصفحات Named Outstanding Book in Philosophy and Religion for 1990 by the Association of American Publishers. ...a remarkable book....Zuckert shows, subtly and persuasively, how the themes of American literature resonate with those of modern thought...Zuckert brings us to the point where philosophy and politics intersect. Few projects have such depth.-AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW |
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The State of Nature in Classic American Fiction | |
Natty and Natural Right | 9 |
Coopers Political Rhetoric | 37 |
Hawthornes Politics of Passion | 61 |
Melvilles Meditations | 97 |
Twains Comic Critique | 129 |
Hemingway on Being in Our Time | 159 |
Faulkner on Nature and History | 195 |
Natural Right An American Fiction? | 239 |
Bibliography | 249 |
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