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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... thought . As there , so here , the problem starts with the habituated self- evidency of the Americanist approach . The notion of Emer- sonian thought as an anticipation of Pragmatism circulated first and still predominates . Older ...
... thought was compromised by Anglocentrism , sometimes amounting even to racism , is not likely to be resolved anytime soon . Some things seem clear , however . First , his antislavery commitment , though belated , was more significant ...
... thought " philosophy , ” he thought " Germany . " When he thought " religion , " he increas- ingly thought " India . " When he thought " government " or " social order , ” as English Traits shows , he mainly thought “ England ” — just ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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