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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... authority. He has been hailed as the father of American literary and philosophical pragmatism and discounted as a less credible spokesman for American democratization and cultural pluralism than Frederick Douglass or even Harriet ...
... authority for a higher “Reason” that intuitively grasped the divine, offered a way out of the Humean impasse and out of the pastorate at the same time. The theory of a higher-order Truth-intuiting faculty inherent in the human psyche ...
... authority. Regular lyceum fare included moral and spiritual issues of broad concern, glimpses of distant lands or historical periods, nondivisive treatments of current public issues, and the various branches of art and science. For ...
... authority. More than any other factor, this rejection put the Transcendentalist avant-garde on a collision course with the mainstream cultural establishment. The Divinity School Address is Emerson's most polished and celebrated ...
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Turinys
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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 |