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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... individual- ism from a standpoint precisely opposite Emerson's : on the ground of society's best interests . So long as dissent or personal idiosyncrasy is not taken to the extreme of endangering others , its expression should be ...
... individual- ism's excesses also reflects an Emersonian zeal for individual transfiguration . To be sure , Arnold is distinctly un - Emersonian in looking to the state to sponsor this process . In this he is both Mill's opposite ( Mill ...
... individual spirituality over against official authority of whatever sort ; on the other hand , as a legitimator of non - Christian traditions , particularly certain strains of Asian spirituality . What counted most for him was individual ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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