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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... things by perceiving the law which per- vades them , by perceiving the superficial differences , and the profound resemblances . But every mental act , — this very perception of identity or oneness , recognizes the difference of things ...
... things , en- gages us . Nature , art , persons , letters , religions , -ob- jects , successively tumble in , and God is but one of its ideas . Nature and literature are subjective phenomena ; every evil and every good thing is a shadow ...
... things , and believing also that " things are knowable " - " knowable , because , being from one , things correspond " ( CW 4 : 35 ) . On second thought , however , it would be fairest to situate Emerson closer to Plato's Socrates than ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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