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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... principle the In- tellect , sometimes " the Soul , " s [ ome ] t [ ime ] s the One . Whate'er we call it , we are at one with it so far as our moments of insight go . But no one moment can go very far , and no one man can lay down the ...
... principle ( S 3 : 87 ) , " the most pure and elevated conception of which the mind is capable " ( S 2 : 243 ) . Later he gets much more emphatic . The whole idea of a " personal " God is oxymoronic . Emerson de- plores the " obstinate ...
... principle is more important than the tide of events ( “ It is better that races should perish if thereby a new principle be taught " [ LL 1 : 147 ] ) . Fourth , that moral illumination tends to come at discomfiture to personal will ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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