Nineteenth-Century Individualism and the Market Economy Individualist Themes in Emerson, Thoreau, and Sumner /

• Main Author: Plotica, Luke Philip (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political theory.; Political philosophy.; Economic history.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.; Economic History.

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 o...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: A Nation of Individuals and Markets
• 2. The Rise of the Market: Individuation and Integration in Antebellum America
• 3. Emerson and Self-Reliance: Individualism Amidst the Market
• 4. Thoreau and Deliberate Living: Individualism Against the Market
• 5. The Maturation of the Market: Industrial Society in the Gilded Age
• 6. Sumner and Natural Struggle: Individualism Through the Market
• 7. Conclusion: Our Nineteenth-Century Inheritance.