Individualist Themes in Emerson, Thoreau, and Sumner
by
Luke Philip Plotica
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book studies nineteenth-century American individualism and its relationship to the simultaneous rise of the market economy as articulated in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Graham Sumner. The argument of the book is that these thinkers offer distinct visions...