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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... further stage of metaphorization . In debates with Calvinists , Unitarians usually came up short on logic and learning but retaliated by insisting that theological argument as such was beside the point . When Emerson's old mentor Henry ...
... further technological advances have propagated luster - culling more vigorously than ever be- fore . Surfing through a fraction of some 140,000 Emerson hits on an internet search , I found scores of websites given over to lists of ...
... further by not positing an absolute with a capital A. For James , the only way to protect against “ monistic dogma- ticism " was to imagine even " God " as finite , this being after all the only way human beings were capable of thinking ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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