A searching exploration of both the value and the dangers of non-conformity in democratic societies. In this smart and insightful book, Ikuta helps us think critically about our culture's headlong embrace of individual idiosyncrasy and self-reliance. She does this by offering fresh, perceptive readings of three nineteenth-century philosophers whose insights remain powerfully relevant in our time.
Jennie C. Ikuta is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Tulsa.