- Preface
- 1. The American Narrative in Crisis
- Part I. The English Origins of the American Self and Society
- 2. The Early Puritan Insurgents and the Origins of Agency
- 3. The Protestant Revolutionaries and the Emerging Society of Agents
- 4. Thomas Hobbes and the Founding of the Liberal Politics of Agency
- 5. John Locke and the Mythic Society of Free Agents
- Part II. The Ascendancy of Agency and the First New Nation
- 6. The Great Awakening and the Emergent Culture of Agency
- 7. The Revolutionary Triumph of Agency
- Part III. The Dilemma of Nationhood
- 8. The Liberal Idyll amidst Republican Realities
- 9. From the Idyll: Liberation and Reversal in a World without Bounds
- Part IV. The Creation of an Agency Civilization
- 10. National Revival as the Crucible of Agency Character
- 11. From Sectarian Discord to Civil Religion
- 12. The Protestant Agent in Liberal Economics
- 13. John Dewey and the Modern Synthesis
- Conclusion: The Recovery of Agency
- Notes
- Index
A Nation of Agents
The American Path to a Modern Self and Society
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Publication Date: 10/01/2002
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