Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800Cambridge University Press, 1982 - 328 էջ The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture. |
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... independence 9 The Lockean paradigm in the eighteenth century Rousseau and the new authority 2. The transmission of ideology and the bestsellers of 1775 The new paternity and the bestsellers of 1775 The pedagogues The moralists 3. The ...
... independence 9 The Lockean paradigm in the eighteenth century Rousseau and the new authority 2. The transmission of ideology and the bestsellers of 1775 The new paternity and the bestsellers of 1775 The pedagogues The moralists 3. The ...
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... 214 221 227 227 230 235 From political to moral independence : the triumph of neutrality 248 The new family as the New World 259 Notes 269 Index 316 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have incurred many debts in writing this book vi CONTENTS.
... 214 221 227 227 230 235 From political to moral independence : the triumph of neutrality 248 The new family as the New World 259 Notes 269 Index 316 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have incurred many debts in writing this book vi CONTENTS.
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... the new childrearing felt a deep moral commitment to prepare their children for a life of rational independence and moral self - sufficiency.2 The sources of this reconsideration of family relations are many 1 INTRODUCTION.
... the new childrearing felt a deep moral commitment to prepare their children for a life of rational independence and moral self - sufficiency.2 The sources of this reconsideration of family relations are many 1 INTRODUCTION.
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... independence of mind ; for as Kant concludes , " Man can only become man by education . " 7 Such a call for filial autonomy and the unimpeded emergence from nonage echoes throughout the rhetoric of the American Revolution . It is its ...
... independence of mind ; for as Kant concludes , " Man can only become man by education . " 7 Such a call for filial autonomy and the unimpeded emergence from nonage echoes throughout the rhetoric of the American Revolution . It is its ...
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... Independence reads : " When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination ... to assume the equal and independent station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them ...
... Independence reads : " When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination ... to assume the equal and independent station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them ...
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EDUCATIONAL THEORY AND MORAL INDEPENDENCE | 9 |
THE LOCKEAN PARADIGM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 12 |
ROUSSEAU AND THE NEW AUTHORITY | 29 |
THE TRANSMISSION OF IDEOLOGY AND THE BESTSELLERS OF 1775 | 36 |
THE NEW PATERNITY AND THE BESTSELLERS OF 1775 | 38 |
THE PEDAGOGUES | 40 |
THE MORALISTS | 51 |
THE FAMILIAL POLITICS OF THE FORTUNATE FALL | 67 |
LIBERTY AND SONSHIP | 174 |
THE NECESSITY OF REBIRTH | 183 |
THE TRIUMPH OF NURTURE | 188 |
THE CHARACTER OF THE NATIONAL FAMILY | 195 |
GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE RECONSTITUTED FAMILY | 197 |
THE POWER OF EXAMPLE | 202 |
THE CHARACTER OF THE FATHER | 208 |
THE DEBT OF HONOR AND THE GREATER GOOD | 214 |
CLARISSA IN AMERICA | 83 |
FORMS OF FILIAL FREEDOM | 93 |
FRANKLIN AND THE NEW ORDER OF THE AGES | 106 |
PRODIGALS AND PARENTAL TYRANTS | 113 |
AFFECTIONATE UNIONS AND THE NEW VOLUNTARISM | 123 |
FROM PASSIVE TO ACTIVE DISOBEDIENCE | 144 |
FILIAL FREEDOM AND AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM | 155 |
THE ASSAULT ON JEHOVAH | 156 |
HUMAN ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE MORAL CHARACTER OF GOD | 164 |
DISSENT AND CONFIDENCE | 221 |
THE SEALING OF THE GARDEN OR THE WORLD WELL LOST | 227 |
THE HARDENING OF THE HEART | 230 |
VENTRILOQUISTS COUNTERFEITERS AND THE SEDUCTION OF THE MIND | 235 |
THE TRIUMPH OF NEUTRALITY | 248 |
THE NEW FAMILY AS THE NEW WORLD | 259 |
NOTES | 269 |
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