id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_lieshmruebeqbjr5o77mgbcc2e Stephen Bush Sovereignty of the Living Individual: Emerson and James on Politics and Religion 2017.0 16 .pdf application/pdf 11248 718 60 Sovereignty of the Living Individual: Emerson and James on Politics and Religion Keywords: Ralph Waldo Emerson; William James; transcendentalism; individualism; religious otherwise, at the very least James worked through his doctrine of the individual with Emerson in mind, of American thought, showing that Emerson's and James's individuality is more political than many James, like Emerson, is committed to the sovereignty of the individual. In terms of the moral and political ideals by which we live, James, like Moreover, James like Emerson regards individuality as involving receptive To be sure, much of what makes individualism significant for both Emerson and James involves in James and Emerson, my goal here is to show some common ways in which their individualism that Emerson and James do not: "the experience of trying to achieve [democratic individuality] Finally, James and Emerson understand their individuality to involve a commitment to James then must think that Emerson's religious individuality is also political. ./cache/work_lieshmruebeqbjr5o77mgbcc2e.pdf ./txt/work_lieshmruebeqbjr5o77mgbcc2e.txt