{"product_id":"negative-liberties-morrison-pynchon-and-the-problem-of-liberal-ideology-paperback","title":"Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCyrus R. K. Patell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 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 \u003ci\u003eNegative Liberties\u003c\/i\u003e Cyrus R. K. Patell revises important ideas in the debate about individualism and the political theory of liberalism. He does so by adding two new voices to the current discussion-Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon-to examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narrative generated by U.S. liberal ideology.\u003cbr\u003ePynchon and Morrison reveal the official narrative of individualism as encompassing a complex structure of contradiction held in abeyance. This narrative imagines that the goals of the individual are not at odds with the goals of the family or society and in fact obscures the existence of an unholy truce between individual liberty and forms of oppression. By bringing these two fiction writers into a discourse dominated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, George Kateb, Robert Bellah, and Michael Sandel, Patell unmasks the ways in which contemporary U.S. culture has not fully shed the oppressive patterns of reasoning handed down by the slaveholding culture from which American individualism emerged.\u003cbr\u003eWith its interdisciplinary approach, \u003ci\u003eNegative Liberties\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to \u003ci\u003es\u003c\/i\u003etudents and scholars of American literature, culture, sociology, and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNegative Liberties\" is a sophisticated study of the appeal of the ideology of individualism in the United States. It is a vast and widely considered topic, but Patell has something new to say about it. His unique contribution comes out of his understanding of the human reliance on storytelling and the creation of narratives. Ethical and deeply engaging, this book adds an important new dimension to ideological criticism in the United States.\"--Priscilla Wald, author of \"Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCyrus R. K. Patell is Associate Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eJoyce's Use of History in \"Finnegans Wake\"\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributor to the \u003ci\u003eCambridge History of American Literature, Volume 7: Prose Writing, 1940-1990.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53301227585843,"sku":"9780822326694","price":63.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/nzKFRmfqkl9780822326694.webp?v=1777507862","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/negative-liberties-morrison-pynchon-and-the-problem-of-liberal-ideology-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}