Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800Cambridge University Press, 1982 - 328 Seiten 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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... understanding of the mind as a tabula rasa . Locke argued that a child's character is not inherited at birth but rather is " created " by the sum total of sense impressions and experiences written on the blank slate of his mind . Thus ...
... understanding of the mind as a tabula rasa . Locke argued that a child's character is not inherited at birth but rather is " created " by the sum total of sense impressions and experiences written on the blank slate of his mind . Thus ...
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... understanding of the growth of the mind and the consequent emphasis on nurture was what Lawrence Stone has recently described as the " growth of affective individualism . " This ultimately political appreciation of the importance of ...
... understanding of the growth of the mind and the consequent emphasis on nurture was what Lawrence Stone has recently described as the " growth of affective individualism . " This ultimately political appreciation of the importance of ...
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... understanding of parental responsibility and filial freedom set forth by Locke in Some Thoughts concerning Educa- tion , a work reprinted nineteen times before 1761.10 On the eve of the American Revolution such a constellation of ideas ...
... understanding of parental responsibility and filial freedom set forth by Locke in Some Thoughts concerning Educa- tion , a work reprinted nineteen times before 1761.10 On the eve of the American Revolution such a constellation of ideas ...
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... understanding of what constitutes a " political " text is in need of broadening . Only by so revising our frame of reference will we be able to appreciate the larger cultural context of the American Revolution . That much remains to be ...
... understanding of what constitutes a " political " text is in need of broadening . Only by so revising our frame of reference will we be able to appreciate the larger cultural context of the American Revolution . That much remains to be ...
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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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