EmersonHarvard University Press, 2003-05-25 - 416 psl. "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote--and in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson himself has cast, and at his role and significance as a truly American institution. On the occasion of Emerson's 200th birthday, Lawrence Buell revisits the life of the nation's first public intellectual and discovers how he became a "representative man." |
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... Reason " capable of apprehending Truth intuitively — a power superior to the lowercase reason of the Enlightenment , the “ understanding " as Emerson called it , which is limited to methodical induction from empirical evi- dence . Never ...
... Reason ” now was held to mean not methodical ratiocination but its conventional oppo- site , intuitive grasp of Truth . Emerson dismissed literal " Mira- cle " -- the miraculous acts of Jesus - as " Monster " for precisely the same reason ...
... Reason ( EL 2 : 88-91 ) . To this declaration the " Ethnical Scrip- tures " he and Thoreau excerpted for The Dial from 1842 to 1844 were meant to supply supporting documentary evidence , excerpted wisdom from an array of ancient sacred ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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