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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... principle within the newly liberated person . There are instincts , and instincts . In his more expository moments , Emer- son distinguishes higher - order from lower - order instincts , “ In- stinct " versus " Inspiration , " " Will ...
... principle is more important than the tide of events ( “ It is better that races should perish if thereby a new principle be taught " [ LL 1 : 147 ] ) . Fourth , that moral illumination tends to come at discomfiture to personal will ...
... principle the ideal applied to both sexes . " Love , " for example , shows this when it characterizes mar- riage as , properly , each partner's training ground " for a love which knows not sex , nor person , nor partiality , but which ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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