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Emerson and Self-Reliance
George Kateb

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great moral philosopher. One of his principle contributions is the theory of self-reliance, a view of democratic individuality. Nietzsche was Emerson's best reader, and George Kateb provides an accessible reading of Emerson that is friendly to the interests of Nietzsche and to later Nietzscheans such as Weber, Heidegger, Arendt, and Foucault.

The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture (Contestations)

1 review
George Kateb

Cornell University Press, 1994

Thought-provoking, uplifting--a wonderful book
This really is a terrific book. It's in essay form, each one building on Kateb's theme of "democractic individualism." The democratic individual is not isolated, anomic, shut off from the rest of the world. The democratic individual is granted the respect and space for development due all persons, but also realizes her or his connectedness to all other persons. For Kateb, individuals are ...

On Liberty (Rethinking the Western Tradition)

29 reviews
John Stuart Mill

Yale University Press, 2003

The great defender of individual liberty
John Stuart Mill, 1806-73, worked for the East India Co. helped run Colonial India from England. Minister of Parliament 1865-68 he served one term. Maiden speech was a disaster his second was great success. He was first MP to propose that women should be given the vote on equal footing with the men who could vote. He got 1/3 support, England gives franchise to women after U.S. He was a great ...

Utopia: The Potential and Prospect of the Human Condition

Aldine Transaction, 2008

Patriotism and Other Mistakes

4 reviews
George Kateb

Yale University Press, 2008

Read the book
This volume contains sixteen thoughtful, careful and highly nuanced exercises in political thought (to borrow a phrase from Hannah Arendt). Among the topics covered are: the relation of aesthetics to morality; the concept of judgment in Arendt; the connection between moral and intellectual integrity in Socrates; the "liberal" dimension of Hobbes' thought (as well as its more apparent illiberal ...

Punishment and the spirit of democracy.(I. Why We Punish: The Foundation of Our Concepts of Punishment): An ...
George Kateb

Thomson Gale, 2007

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