An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2024. Hardcover. This is a story about a dangerous idea--one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement--the idea that all men..... More