Brown, James Patrick2013-06-102013-06-102013-04https://hdl.handle.net/11299/150605University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. April 2013. Major: American Studies. Advisor: Lary May. 1 computer file (PDF); i, 219 pages.This dissertation tells the story of--or, rather, unfolds one intellectual history of--American individualism on the left. In it, I argue that Emerson and Thoreau belong to a tradition of American anarchism that included Emma Goldman and other Gilded Age anarchists, Beat poets like Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen, and New Leftists in the politics of the 1960s.en-USAnarchismEmersonEmma GoldmanLibertarianThoreauZenThesis or Dissertation