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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... traditions in the post-Enlightenment histories of Victor Cousin and Marie Joseph de Gerando. These seemed to corroborate the existence of a universal mind that transcended cultural borders. In the traditional syllabus with which ...
... tradition is privileged. Indeed the only way to attain it is to quit the whole world and take counsel of the bosom alone (EL 2: 87, 86, 95). Emerson never retracted this identification of the religious with inner spiritual experience ...
... tradition, Congregationalism, to another minority faction. The Indian-American anthropologist respects cultural particularism far more than the Anglo-American sage respects sectarianism; but they share a partiality for cosmopolitan ...
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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 |