Nietzsche and the American Mind

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Notes

1. See Hartz, Liberal Tradition in America; and Tocqueville, Democracy in America.

2. Strauss, Natural Right and History.

3. See Macpherson, Theory of Possessive Individualism.

4. See, for example, Roelofs, Poverty of American Politics; and Roelofs, Ideology and Myth; Hofstadter, The American Political; Putnam, “Bowling Alone.”

5. Hobbes, Leviathan, 103.

6. See Ford, Letters of Henry Adams.

7. For excellent studies of Emerson’s concept of transcendent individualism, see Kateb, Emerson and Self-Reliance; and Kateb, The Inner Ocean.