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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... never introduces me into the reality , for contact with which , we would even pay the costly price of sons and lovers . Was it Boscovich who found out that bodies never come in contact ? Well , souls never touch their ob- jects . ( W 3 ...
... never learned Sanskrit , never visited a temple , perhaps never even met a practicing Hindu or Buddhist , and repeatedly confused the two religions . But he did manage to de - occidentalize him- self well enough to become " the pre ...
... never , never to be solved politically , but only spiritually - morally . " 50 But never would he have accepted so sharp a separation between the intel- lectual and public arenas , much less that the split was sanc- tioned by the ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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