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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... 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 seemed to synchronize with the synoptic comparative treatments ...
... Divine Mind into our mind, the promise of which is the Unity of the human soul in all the individuals. This is the core of all religions, the law of laws. Bible, Shaster, Zendavesta, Orphic Verses, Koran, Confucius. No faith ...
... divine presence, admonishes The American Scholar. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his (W 1: 57). In his next definitional address, when Emerson starts to imagine the kind of books ...
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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 |