Facing the other ethical disruption and the American mind /
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
c2004.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Horizons in theory and American culture.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.