ISBN: 9780674761056 - representative men: seven lectures: the collected works of ralph waldo emerson, vol iv (14 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Belknap Press, 1996. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good. Covers have shelf wear.

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1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiv, 174 pages; 24 cm. Contents: Uses of great men -- Plato, or the philosopher -- Plate: new readings -- Swedenborg, or the mystic -- Montaigne, or the skeptic -- Shakespeare, or the poet -- Napoleon, or the man of the world -- Goethe, or the writer. Sumnmary: 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." Subjects: Biography. Languages & Literatures.American Literature. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, -- 1749-1832. Montaigne, Michel de, -- 1533-1592. Napoleon -- I, -- Emperor of the French, -- 1769-1821. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.Swedenborg, Emanuel, -- 1688-1772. 1 Kg.…

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Zustand: New. This work, first published in 1850, is made up of a series of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was inspired by the romantic belief that there exists a "general mind" that expresses itself with special intensity through certain individual lives. Num Pages: 501 pages, 6 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 281. . 1996. Reprint. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 174 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. As Judith Shklar has pointed out, Emerson built Representative Men around the principle of rotation, which had become a political axiom in Jacksonian America-the idea that no man, no matter how imposing, should be accorded permanent authority. Representat.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - To find in this extraordinary book, Representative Men, an Emerson expounding the primacy of personality and heroic genius in six major figures of Western European civilization - Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, Goethe - seems nothing short of anomalous. Was Emerson reconsidering his own philosophical premises Or is there a hidden agenda in this study that reflects on European phenomena and values As the notion of the 'representative' is becoming increasingly central to our national cultural debate, it seems of utmost importance to reexamine Emerson's meditations and seek in them a challenge to philosophy.…