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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... intellectual work to academic glass bead games and his conviction that intellectuals should speak to broader publics . Such motives had propelled Emerson from the minis- try . He did not want to speak to members only . Starting in the ...
... intellectual stereotypes of its effeteness that ran strong in the antebellum United States and still do today without resorting to a conventional utilitarian defense . Emer- son wants to co - opt anti - intellectualism by meeting it ...
... intellectual work constitutes political intervention . His reluctance either to assign intrinsic value to free - standing intellectual work or to hinge the justification on some pragmatic result anticipates today's debates about how ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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