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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... seem. Chapter 2 discusses it in detail, both as a philosophy of life and as a personal ethic or life practice. The first chapter prepares the way for what follows with an overview of Emerson's career, culminating in an analysis of his ...
... seem offbeat, bizarre, and sometimes downright scandalous. This is one of the chief ways he resembles both the French Renaissance essayist Montaigne, whom he loved, and the German philosopher Nietzsche, who loved him. All this comes ...
... seem. Chapter 2 discusses it in detail, both as a philosophy of life and as a personal ethic or life practice. The first chapter prepares the way for what follows with an overview of Emerson's career, culminating in an analysis of his ...
... seem strangely paradoxical. How can a figure so commonly and understandably taken as a spokesperson for U.S. national values like American individualism also be thought of as anticipating a postnational form of consciousness? Yet ...
... seem offbeat, bizarre, and sometimes downright scandalous. This is one of the chief ways he resembles both the French Renaissance essayist Montaigne, whom he loved, and the German philosopher Nietzsche, who loved him. All this comes ...
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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 |