Maier, Pauline; Merritt Roe Smith; Alexander Keyssar; and Daniel J. Kevles. Inventing America: A History of the United States, 2nd ed. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2006. Very accessible and thorough textbook about the agonistic spirit as inventive. Also published in a two-volume paperback edition.
Moore, Robert and Douglas Gillette. The Warrior Within: Accessing the Knight [Archetype] in the Male Psyche. New York: William Morrow, 1992. Very accessible. (There is a corresponding Warrior archetype in the female psyche.)
Nagy, Gregory. The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, 2nd ed. Baltimore, Maryland; and London, England: JohnsHopkinsUniversity Press, 1998.
Neumann, Eric. The Origins and History of Consciousness, translated from the 1949 German original by R. F. C. Hull. Princeton, New Jersey: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1954. A classic.
Ong, Walter J. "Latin Language Study as a Renaissance Puberty Rite. Studies in Philology, 56, 2 (April 1959): 103-24. Reprinted in Ong's Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture (Ithaca, New York; and London, England: Cornell University Press, 1971: 113-41).
Ong, Walter J. The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History. New Haven, Connecticut; and London, England: YaleUniversity Press, 1967. See pages 192-286.
Ong, Walter J. "Rhetoric and the Origins of Consciousness." Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture. Ithaca, New York; and London, England: CornellUniversity Press, 1971. 1-22.
Ong, Walter J. Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness. Ithaca, New York and London, England: CornellUniversity Press, 1981. Very accessible. Ong's 1979 Messenger Lectures at CornellUniversity.
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