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
Ronald W. Dworkin is a fellow at the Institue for American Values and co-director of the Calvert Institute for Policy Research.
yields some starkingly original insights. . . . is plausible and
obviously the product of considerable thought and erudition.
*First Things*
This ambitious book finds a template for the "culture Wars " of
contemporary America in the culture wars of late antiquity. Dworkin
pursues his interesting thesis with creativity and with some
success.
*Journal of Church and State, Vol. 41, No. 1 Winter 1999*
An important contribution to the literature on the historical roots
of expressive individualism. . . . the book has great breadth and
depth and it covers a large intellectual territory. The book is
especially useful for historians, philosophers and psychologists
who are interested in the development and maintenance of the
imperial self.
*Comptes Rendes*
A brilliant and illuminating interpretation of contemporary America
and the recent great transformation in the American character.
Dworkin employs both the political vision of Tocqueville and the
religious vision of Saint Augustine to explain our nation and
ourselves with extraordinary originality, depth, and wisdom.
*James Kurth, Swarthmore College*
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