The Imperial Self: An Essay in American Literary and Cultural History

Larrabee, Harold A.; Anderson, Quentin

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“…22 Although I disagree with recent Emerson scholarship that maintains that his criticism and activism were continuous, neither do I agree with the work that this recent scholarship argues against. Earlier Emerson scholars contended that there was a tension between abolitionism and Emerson's social criticism on two grounds-first, that foundational Emersonian concepts, such as self-reliance and authenticity, were incompatible with collective action (Kateb [1995(Kateb [ ] 2002Poirier 1985), and second, that Emerson's work starkly contrasted with that of radical reformers of his time (Anderson 1971;Bercovitch 1993). In my view, recent Emerson scholarship has posed significant challenges to both of these views.…”

Section: Rethinking the Relationship Between Critics And Activistsmentioning

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Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics

Gilson

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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This essay makes a distinction between the roles that activists and social critics can play in democratic societies and defends the separate tasks of a non-activist social critic. Drawing on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings, I argue that non-activist social critics are better situated than activists to reach certain audiences, cultivate certain democratic capacities, and preserve their audience’s agency while doing so. In Emerson’s case, his concerns about his activist contemporaries led him to craft new ways of critically engaging his peers. At the same time, as Emerson’s life also illustrates, non-activist critics are limited by their roles and must forgo some of their distinctive advantages in order to do activist work. Clarifying the scope of the social critic’s role in this way helps critics to draw on the benefits of their position and avoid overstepping its constraints, thereby allowing them to more effectively promote political reform.

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Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics

Gilson

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…This inseparable link between separation and individuation is reinforced in the minds of clinicians and in public discourse by hyphenation of the terms. For a culture that had created a separated, "bounded and masterful self," or what Anderson (1971) refers to as the "Imperial self" or the "hypertrophied self," Mahler's developmental model was well suited and easily received. As Taylor (1989) writes, this is a self structured around "the notion of a punctual disengaged subject exercising instrumental control" (p. 174).…”

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Integrative Individuation: An Alternative To The Separation-Individuation Model

Kanwal

2023

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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An alternative to Mahler’s separation-individuation model of child development is presented to explain differences in the development and experience of a sense of self in Indian culture and other cultures where the Western sense of individual selfhood is not seen as the goal of maturity and adulthood. In the absence of such a formulation, called here integrative individuation, the familial and relational experience of people from non-Western cultures is often misunderstood and pathologized by clinicians. Features of this non-Western sense of self include looser boundaries, different relational priorities, and greater tolerance regarding personal space. Though these differences have been commented on by scholars, a detailed developmental model has not previously been formulated.

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The emergent idea of race

Nye

1978

Theor Soc

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The Imperial Self: An Essay in American Literary and Cultural History

Cited by 24 publications

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Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics

Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics

Integrative Individuation: An Alternative To The Separation-Individuation Model

The emergent idea of race

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