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An uneasy solitude : individual and society in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson /
This subtle intellectual biography juxtaposes Ralph Waldo Emerson's revolutionary spiritual thinking with his elitist ideas of race and property--a contrast so sharp as to make his personality seem almost incoherent." Writing in (he great modern tradition of French anglicisles, Maurice Gon...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1987]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Eric Cheyfitz
- Translator's preface / by Lawrence Rosenwald
- Author's preface to the French edition
- Abbreviations
- Part I: The uncertainties of a vocation. 1 The family milieu ; 2 Harvard: an apprenticeship in solitude ; The schoolteacher feels his way ; 4 The ministry, or, an attempt at the safe middle way
- Part II: The discovery and glorification of the self. 5 The road to Concord ; 6 Prophecies and epiphany ; 7 Organizing victory ; 8 From affirmation to challenge
- Part III: From ideal democracy to natural aristocracy. 9 Malaise ; 10 Exploring the problems ; 11 Equilibrium regained
- Part IV: Individual and citizen. 12 The thorn in the flesh ; 13 A surrogate optimism ; 14 The last struggle
- Bibliography of Emerson's writings
- Index.