Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk: Introduction: the new history of Emerson's politics and his philosophy of self-reliance
Wilson Carey McWilliams: Pt. 1. Classics on Emerson's politics ; Emerson: the all and the one
Judith N. Shklar: Emerson and the inhibitions of democracy
George Kateb: Self-reliance, politics, and society
Stanley Cavell: Aversive thinking: Emersonian representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche
Jack Turner: Part 2. Emerson's self-reliance properly understood ; Self-reliance and complicity: Emerson's ethics of citizenship
James H. Read: The limits of self-reliance: Emerson, slavery, and abolition
Len Gougeon: Emerson, self-reliance, and the politics of democracy
Alan M. Levine: Part III. The stubborn reality of Emerson's transcendentalism ; Skeptical triangle? a comparison of the political thought of Emerson, Nietzsche, and Montaigne
Daniel S. Malachuk: Emerson's politics, retranscendentalized
Shannon L. Mariotti: Emerson's transcendental gaze and the "disagreeable particulars" of slavery: vision and the costs of idealism
Neal Dolan: Part IV. Emerson and liberal democracy ; Property in being: liberalism and the language of ownership in Emerson's writing
Jason Frank: Standing for others: reform and representation in Emerson's political thought
G. Borden Flanagan.: Emerson's democratic platonism in representative men
