Individualism : The Cultural Logic of Modernity

generative premise of modernity itself. Authors especially considered include Locke, Defoe, Freud, and Adorno.The essays in this volume first began as papers presented at a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association held at Princeton University. Among the contributors are Nancy Armstrong, Deborah Cook, James Cruise, David Jenemann, Lucy McNeece, Vivasvan Soni, Frederick Turner, and Philip Weinstein. [Publisher's text]