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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... the highest value on egocentricity , yet also strives mightily to guard itself against the egotism it seems to license . How can 60 this be ? How does Self - Reliance make Emersonian Self-Reliance in Theory and Practice.
... practice . Self - Reliance as a Way of Life What sort of practice ? The essay that bears its name opens by advancing it as a corrective therapy . Though there is much more 64 to the idea than that , this is the EMERSONIAN SELF ...
... practice in- tended to retrieve a person from the state in which adult peo- ple usually languish , acting and thinking according to what is expected of you rather than according to what you most deeply believe . It requires not ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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