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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... truth , is won . " Emer- son would have amended " is won " to " is never quite " or maybe simply " never " —and pointed to the convoluted pulsations of Heidegger's prose as proof that he knew better than he wrote . As Emerson saw it ...
... truth . We say , I will walk abroad , and the truth will take form and clearness to me . We go forth , but cannot find it . It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library , to seize the thought . But we ...
... truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr . ( CW 6 : 29-30 ) Whatever could have suggested this striking thrust ? Almost surely the case of John Brown . The message comes almost ver- batim from a 1859 ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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