The Masterless

Self and Society in Modern America

By: Wilfred M. McClay

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Paperback | 28 February 1994

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In this provocative book, Wilfred McClay considers the long-standing tension between individualism and social cohesion in conceptions of American culture. Exploring ideas of unity and diversity as they have evolved since the Civil War, he illuminates the historical background to our ongoing search for social connectedness and sources of authority in a society increasingly dominated by the premises of individualism. McClay borrows D. H. Lawrence's term 'masterless men'--extending its meaning to women as well--and argues that it is expressive of both the promise and the peril inherent in the modern American social order.

Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines--including literature, sociology, political science, philosophy, psychology, and feminist theory--McClay identifies a competition between visions of dispersion on the one hand and coalescence on the other as modes of social organization. In addition, he employs intellectual biography to illuminate the intersection of these ideas with the personal experiences of the thinkers articulating them and shows how these shifting visions are manifestations of a more general ambivalence about the process of national integration and centralization that has characterized modern American economic, political, and cultural life.

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ï¿½Aï¿½ fine study."American Historical Review" This is a model of intelligent and intelligible cultural history from which any student of modern America will profit."Australasian Journal of American Studies" A fascinating intellectual history."America" [A] fine study."American Historical Review" Engaging."Journal of Southern History"

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies General Studies History Regional & National History History of the Americas Philosophy

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
Grand Review	p. 9
Paradoxes of Antebellum Individualism	p. 40
The Prisonhouse of Self	p. 74
Ambivalent Consolidators	p. 105
The Search for Disinterestedness	p. 149
Totalitarianism: the Mind in Exile	p. 189
Guardians of the Self	p. 226
The Hipster and the Organization Man	p. 269
Notes	p. 297
Index	p. 347
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