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Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Making of a Democratic Intellectual
Engelsk Paperback
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Making of a Democratic Intellectual
Engelsk Paperback

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In this original and highly readable book, Peter S. Field explains how Ralph Waldo Emerson became the first democratic intellectual in American history. By focusing on his public career, Field contends that Emerson was a democrat in two senses: he single-handedly sought to create a vocation equal to his conviction that America represented the democratic promise of the western world; and as importantly, he acted the part of the democrat by attempting to bring culture to all Americans. Utterly disaffected with the self-satisfied Boston Brahmin establishment into which he had been born, he set forth through the nation in order to assume the role of conscience, critic, and gentle exhorter to the people. More poet than philosopher, Emerson demands to be understood as a public intellectual. Peter Field deftly portrays Emerson as he attempted to create himself—as a unique, irenic prophet to the American people.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780847688432
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0847688437
Udg. Dato:
9 okt 2003
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
144mm
Højde:
222mm
Forlag:
Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato:
9 okt 2003
Forfatter(e):
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