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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... individuals (Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe). For he wanted no misunderstandings: he would not stuffhis book with sketches of dreary do-gooders whom we, poor nobodies, should emulate. Far from it. “The ...
... individuals (Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe). For he wanted no misunderstandings: he would not stuffhis book with sketches of dreary do-gooders whom we, poor nobodies, should emulate. Far from it. “The ...
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... individuals ( Plato , Swedenborg , Montaigne , Shakespeare , Napoleon , and Goethe ) . For he wanted no misunderstandings : he would not stuff his book with sketches of dreary do - gooders whom we , poor nobodies , should emulate . Far ...
... individuals ( Plato , Swedenborg , Montaigne , Shakespeare , Napoleon , and Goethe ) . For he wanted no misunderstandings : he would not stuff his book with sketches of dreary do - gooders whom we , poor nobodies , should emulate . Far ...
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... individual's relation to everything ( and everyone ) else . Do our intuitions belong to something larger than ourselves even when our insights seem unique and ours alone ? That is , if we are more alike than different , a universal ...
... individual's relation to everything ( and everyone ) else . Do our intuitions belong to something larger than ourselves even when our insights seem unique and ours alone ? That is , if we are more alike than different , a universal ...
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... individual ultimately matters less than what the individual embodies : when we are excited by Plato , Emerson notes , " we do not owe this to Plato but to the idea to which , also , Plato was debtor . " On the other hand , without the ...
... individual ultimately matters less than what the individual embodies : when we are excited by Plato , Emerson notes , " we do not owe this to Plato but to the idea to which , also , Plato was debtor . " On the other hand , without the ...
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Seven Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. around , full circle , to the individual , mortal and poignantly flawed , or mired in what Yeats called the rag - and - bone shop of the human heart . Otherwise , heroes become bores at last . Who ...
Seven Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. around , full circle , to the individual , mortal and poignantly flawed , or mired in what Yeats called the rag - and - bone shop of the human heart . Otherwise , heroes become bores at last . Who ...
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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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