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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... soul on an equilibrium when it leans to the earth under the pressure of calamity” (JMN 3: 45). He was culturally predisposed from the start to measure all faiths by the test of what they did for human lives. In the life of the mind ...
... public pronouncements including “Religion” (two lectures, 1837, 1840), “Holiness” (1838), and “Doctrine of the Soul” (1838), all of which 37 were later drawn on for Essays, First Series (1841). the making of a public intellectual.
... 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 tradition is privileged. Indeed the only way to attain it is “to quit the whole ...
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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 |