EmersonHarvard University Press, 2004-09-30 - 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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... George and Sophia Ripley in suburban Boston (1841–1847), one of the most impressive of the many antebellum utopian socialist experiments, which became a testing ground for Charles Fourier's utopian socialism before fire and insolvency ...
... , but he would not have thought to use it as a noun. That happened only at the turn of the century. “Public philosopher,” the rubric by 40 which George Cotkin links Emerson to William James, would the making of a public intellectual.
Lawrence Buell. 40 which George Cotkin links Emerson to William James, would have pleased him well enough, but the modern professionalization of philosophy gives it a too specialized ring to today's ears. 21 “Public intellectual,” which ...
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2 Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
3 Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
4 Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
5 Emerson as a Philosopher? | 199 |
Emerson and Abolition | 242 |
7 Emerson as AntiMentor | 288 |
Notes | 337 |
Acknowledgments | 383 |
Index | 385 |