A Nation of Agents

A Nation of Agents PDF Author: James E. Block
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674008830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Book Description
Block offers a new perspective on the formation of the modern American self and society. He roots self and society in the concept of agency, rather than liberty, and dispenses with the national myth of the “sacred cause of liberty”—with the Declaration of Independence as its “American scripture.”