EmersonHarvard University Press, 2004-09-30 - 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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... mind, let us see what we can make of the man who laid them down. present. Becoming Emerson Emerson was born into a nation a mere quarter-century old and acutely self-conscious of its probationary status. Indeed the United States of his ...
... mind and reading widened. Like his elder brother William, who had foresworn the ministry after theological studies in Germany, Emerson was losing faith in Christianity's special claims to be a divinely revealed religion. 7 Ministerial ...
... mind, books can be more important than persons, however. So too for Emerson. Negatively, David Hume's elegant skepticism that religion could be proven, even that causality could be proven, disturbed and excited him. Hume was the serpent ...
... mind” that transcended cultural borders. In the traditional syllabus with which Emerson started, the non-Christian analogue that impressed him most was Plato's Socrates, whose “daemon” seemed identical to the Christian “conscience” (JMN ...
Lawrence Buell. 22 tions on the Growth of the Mind (1826) (which led him to the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg). Indeed, it remained the exception, not the rule, for Emerson to imagine the work of thinking and reading in nationalist ...
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2 Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
3 Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
4 Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
5 Emerson as a Philosopher? | 199 |
Emerson and Abolition | 242 |
7 Emerson as AntiMentor | 288 |
Notes | 337 |
Acknowledgments | 383 |
Index | 385 |