EmersonHarvard University Press, 2003-05-25 - 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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... ethics rather than his epistemology . As Gustaaf Van Cromphout points out , Emerson " expresses him- self repeatedly ... ethical thinker was the power of moral sentiment to shape indi- vidual thought and action . To theorize about moral ...
... ethical theory - Benthamite moral utilitarianism and Kantian deontology or duty ethics- than like what is now called " virtue ethics , " according to which " how it is best or right or proper to conduct oneself is ex- plained in terms ...
... ethics more important than epistemology if forced to choose between them abstractly ( he once called ethical philosophy “ the most impor- tant science " [ L 1 : 348 ] ) , never would it have occurred to him to claim with Emmanuel ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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