The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern AmericaUniv of North Carolina Press, 1994 - 366 pages 'Liberty is all every well, but men cannot live without masters. There is always a master. And men in glad obedience to the master they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine...' -D.H. Lawrence |
Contents
Grand Review | 9 |
Paradoxes of Antebellum Individualism | 40 |
The Prisonhouse of Self | 74 |
Ambivalent Consolidators | 105 |
The Search for Disinterestedness | 149 |
The Mind in Exile | 189 |
Guardians of the Self | 226 |
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