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Marcus James - Glad To The Brink Of Fear A Portrait Of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hardcover
Marcus James - Glad To The Brink Of Fear A Portrait Of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hardcover
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Description: An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers More than two centuries after his birth Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry - eyed prophet of self - reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice philosophy art desire and suffering. James Marcus introduces readers to this Emerson a writer of self - interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee shrewdness. This Emerson is a rebel. He is also a lover a friend a husband and a father. Having declared his great topic to be the infinitude of the private man he is nonetheless an intensely social being who develops Transcendentalism in the company of Henry David Thoreau Margaret Fuller Bronson Alcott and Theodore Parker. And although he resists political activism early on hoping instead for a revolution in consciousness the burning issue of slavery ultimately transforms him from cloistered metaphysician to fiery abolitionist. Drawing on telling episodes from Emerson's life alongside landmark essays like Self - Reliance Experience and Circles Glad to the Brink of Fear reveals how Emerson shares our preoccupations with fate and freedom race and inequality love and grief. It shows too how his desire to see the world afresh rather than accepting the consensus view is a lesson that never grows old.
Title: Glad To The Brink Of Fear A Portrait Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author(s): Marcus James
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691254333
Pages: 344 Pages, 15 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 3/5/2024
Category: Philosophy
Description: An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers More than two centuries after his birth Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry - eyed prophet of self - reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice philosophy art desire and suffering. James Marcus introduces readers to this Emerson a writer of self - interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee shrewdness. This Emerson is a rebel. He is also a lover a friend a husband and a father. Having declared his great topic to be the infinitude of the private man he is nonetheless an intensely social being who develops Transcendentalism in the company of Henry David Thoreau Margaret Fuller Bronson Alcott and Theodore Parker. And although he resists political activism early on hoping instead for a revolution in consciousness the burning issue of slavery ultimately transforms him from cloistered metaphysician to fiery abolitionist. Drawing on telling episodes from Emerson's life alongside landmark essays like Self - Reliance Experience and Circles Glad to the Brink of Fear reveals how Emerson shares our preoccupations with fate and freedom race and inequality love and grief. It shows too how his desire to see the world afresh rather than accepting the consensus view is a lesson that never grows old.
Title: Glad To The Brink Of Fear A Portrait Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author(s): Marcus James
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691254333
Pages: 344 Pages, 15 B/W Illus.
Publication Date: 3/5/2024
Category: Philosophy
