Representative Men: Seven Lectures - Couverture souple

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1646795423 ISBN 13 : 9781646795420

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 1905

Synopsis

"Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extol the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great. Emerson was inspired by the Romantic belief that there exists a "general mind" that expresses itself with special intensity through certain individual lives. It reflects an appreciation of genius as a quality distributed to the few for the benefit of the many.

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À propos de l?auteur

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) was an American poet and essayist. Universally known as the Sage of Concord, Emerson established himself as a leading spokesman of transcendentalism and as a major figure in American literature. His additional works include a series of lectures published as Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 1905
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1646795423
• ISBN 13: 9781646795420
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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