Emerson, Thoreau, and the Role of the Cultural Critic

Reinterprets important works of the social criticism of Emerson and Thoreau as being based in defense of community. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Role of the Cultural Critic offers an important reinterpretation of the central works of two key figures in American letters. Drawing upon the work of several important contemporary thinkers-including Michael Walzer, Alisdair MacIntrye, Charles Taylor, and Stanley Cavell-Sam McGuire Worley argues that the mature thought of Emerson and Thoreau is deeply imb