Representative Men (Seven Lectures) (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

 
9780812970050: Representative Men (Seven Lectures) (Modern Library Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0812970055 ISBN 13: 9780812970050
Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803?—1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer, whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied at Harvard Divinity School and became an ordained minister, continuing a long line of ministers in his family. He traveled widely and lectured, and became well known for his publications Essays and Nature.

About the Introducer
BRENDA WINEAPPLE is the author of Hawthorne: A Life and Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. She has twice a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She lives in New York City.

Aus dem Klappentext

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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Verlag
Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0812970055
ISBN 13 
9780812970050
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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