Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology

by Cyrus R.K. Patell

Since the nineteenth century, ideas centered on the individual, on Emersonian self-reliance, and on the right of the individual to the pursuit of happiness have had a tremendous presence in the United States-and even more so after the Reagan era. But has this presence been for the good of all? In Negative Liberties Cyrus R. K. Patell revises important ideas in the debate about individualism and the political theory of liberalism. He does so...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326698
• ISBN13: 9780822326694
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"