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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... example of a self forced prospectively to imagine the loss it retrospectively refuses to feel . " 20 But is " refuses " quite right ? Something more than repression seems at work here . One can agree the essay is in denial with- out ...
... example of such questing in Emerson's own life was his encounter with Indian scriptures . He never learned Sanskrit , never visited a temple , perhaps never even met a practicing Hindu or Buddhist , and repeatedly confused the two ...
... example , a neighborhood ) and much bigger ( say , a family of nations ) . Would that Friedl had been willing to take the step that Dewey almost took here , and treat Pragmatism in the awareness that it can root itself just as logically ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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