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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... kind of creative writing given over to pondering how life should be led ; if you relish virtuoso displays of mental energy and " inspired " thinking that doesn't try to fill in all the blanks ; if you find yourself vexed by the ...
... kind " takes him by the hand and consolingly whispers “ Darling , never mind ! / Tomor- row they will wear another face , / The founder thou ! these are thy race ! " ( 3:25 ) . As a lead - in to Emerson's most soul - searching essay ...
... kind of philosophy in which Emerson saw himself as engaged . To hear him tell it , we should think of him as a kind of epistemologist , a philosopher of mind . Such is the context in which he invokes Kant as precedent . Emerson sums up ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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