CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1 The American Narrative in Crisis 1
5. I The English Origins of the American I Self and Society
6. 2 The Early Puritan Insurgents and the Origins of Agency 39
7. 3 The Protestant Revolutionaries and the Emerging Society of Agents 69
8. 4 Thomas Hobbes and the Founding of the Liberal Politics of Agency 111
9. 5 John Locke and the Mythic Society of Free Agents 152
10. II The Ascendancy of Agency and the II First New Nation
11. 6 The Great Awakening and the Emergent Culture of Agency 183
12. 7 The Revolutionary Triumph of Agency 233
13. III The Dilemma of Nationhood
14. 8 The Liberal Idyll amidst Republican Realities 299
15. 9 From Liberation to Reversal in a World without Bounds 332
16. IV The Creation of an Agency Civilization
17. 10 National Revival as the Crucible of Agency Character 369
18. 11 From Sectarian Discord to Civil Religion 424
19. 12 The Protestant Agent in Liberal Economics 459
20. 13 John Dewey and the Modern Synthesis 493
21. Conclusion: The Recovery of Agency 537
22. Notes 553
23. Index 635