Representative Men: Seven LecturesRandom House Publishing Group, 18. 12. 2007 - Počet stran: 192 Introduction by Brenda Wineapple In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic. Emerson offers timeless meditations on the value of individual greatness, reconnecting readers with the everyday virtues of his “Representative Men”: Plato, in whose writings are contained “the culture of nations”; Emanuel Swedenborg, a “rich discoverer” who strove to unite the scientific and spiritual planes; Michel de Montaigne, “the frankest and honestest of all writers”; William Shakespeare, who “wrote the text of modern life”; Napoleon Bonaparte, who had the “virtues and vices” of common men writ large; and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who “in conversation, in calamity…finds new materials.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic reflects the author’s corrections for an 1876 reprinting. |
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... genius of humanity is the real subject,” Hitiersoii declares, “whose biography is written in our annals.” Representative men represent us, warts and all. Appearing in l850—the same year that llawthome published The ScanletLetter ...
... genius of humanity is the real subject,” Hitiersoii declares, “whose biography is written in our annals.” Representative men represent us, warts and all. Appearing in l850—the same year that llawthome published The ScanletLetter ...
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... genius of humanity is the real subject , " Emerson declares , " whose biography is written in our annals . " Representative men represent us , warts and all . Appearing in 1850 - the same year that Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter ...
... genius of humanity is the real subject , " Emerson declares , " whose biography is written in our annals . " Representative men represent us , warts and all . Appearing in 1850 - the same year that Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter ...
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... borgian fascination with analogies ( " that little explains large , and large , little " ) ; his hard , wise skepticism and his epigrammatic style . Shakespeare shows Emerson that the greatest genius is always be- xii Introduction.
... borgian fascination with analogies ( " that little explains large , and large , little " ) ; his hard , wise skepticism and his epigrammatic style . Shakespeare shows Emerson that the greatest genius is always be- xii Introduction.
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Seven Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. Shakespeare shows Emerson that the greatest genius is always be- holden to predecessors like Emerson and Goethe is the man who , like Napoleon and Emerson " set the axe at the root of the tree of cant ...
Seven Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. Shakespeare shows Emerson that the greatest genius is always be- holden to predecessors like Emerson and Goethe is the man who , like Napoleon and Emerson " set the axe at the root of the tree of cant ...
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... genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his life long. The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity ...
... genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his life long. The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity ...
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PLATO OR THE PHILOSOPHER | 23 |
SWEDENBORG OR THE MYSTIC | 53 |
MONTAIGNE OR THE SCEPTIC | 85 |
SHAKSPEARE OR THE POET | 107 |
NAPOLEON OR THE MAN OF THE WORLD | 126 |
GOETHE OR THE WRITER | 147 |
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