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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... in which he no longer believed for a flexible one whose emerging form he could bend to his liking . This was the lyceum . 23 The American lyceum was a loose assemblage of autonomous THE MAKING OF A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL.
... believed in the right of believ- ing that you might be right if you believed . " 38 From this per- spective , Emerson looks most interesting as a harbinger of the despiritualization of religion into an ethico - psychic force . From this ...
... believed ? ( Aphorisms like " If the poet write a true drama , then he is Caesar , and not the player of Caesar " [ W 2 : 95 ] Nietzsche pounced on with gusto . ) . 27 To go with the Pragmatist Emerson is to opt for the more citizenly ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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