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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... human oppression; but his central project, and the basis of his legacy, was to unchain individual minds. This mission, starting with the liberation of himself, has had two particularly stunning consequences, neither of which Emerson ...
... how “this particular man represented the idea of Man” (JMN 4: 256)—although no human being truly can, although even the 11 “great” fall short of one's ideal. “Bacon, Shakespeare, Caesar, the making public intellectual of a.
... Human Wishes,” not knowing for sure that Johnson “borrowed from the heathen” but struck by the resemblances.8 Among the many ways she influenced her nephew, four were crucial. First, she made him feel special. Second, she was his ...
... human lives. In the life of the mind, books can be more important than persons, however. So too for Emerson. Negatively, David Hume's elegant skepticism that religion could be proven, even that causality could be proven, disturbed and ...
... human psyche seemed to synchronize with the synoptic comparative treatments of the world's major thought traditions in the post-Enlightenment histories of Victor Cousin and Marie Joseph de Gerando. These seemed to corroborate the ...
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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 |