基本説明
Dworkin demonstrates why today's cultural debates bear a remarkable resemblance to Augustine's ideological struggles against the Manicheans, Platonists, Donatists, Pelagians, Stoics, and pagan aristocrats of late antiquity.
Full Description
The Rise of the Imperial Self establishes a geneaology of aristocracy and places America firmly within an aristocratic tradition originally articulated by St. Augustine, but adapted to American society by Alexis de Tocqueville. Ronald W. Dworkin then traces the evolution of American culture from Tocqueville's America, when American aristocracy was defined by a love of something beyond the self to today's preoccupation with individuality, self-expression, autonomy, and self-esteem—the "imperial self."
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: America and the City of Man Chapter 3 Expressive Individualism, Manicheism, and the "Higher Self" Chapter 4 The Expressive Individualist, the Donatists, and the Honor of Work Chapter 5 Christianity, Public Opinion, and the Republican Principle in the Imagination of Tocqueville's American Chapter 6 Pelagianism in the Society of Expressive Individualism Chapter 7 Donatism in the Society of Expressive Individualism Chapter 8 Platonism in the Society of Expressive Individualism Chapter 9 The Expressive Individualist and Self-Esteem Chapter 10 The Expressive Individualist and the Spirit of Ressentiment Part 11 Part II: America and the City of God Chapter 12 The Creation of the Aristocrat in the City of God Chapter 13 Tocqueville's American as an Aristocrat in the City of God Chapter 14 The Fall of the Aristocrat in the City of God and the Rise of the "Organization Man" Chapter 15 The Rise of the Imperial Self Chapter 16 Contents Chapter 17 Bibliography Chapter 18 Index
