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Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Making of a Democratic Intellectual (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,111
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Making of a Democratic Intellectual (Paperback): Peter S. Field

Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Making of a Democratic Intellectual (Paperback)

Peter S. Field

Series: American Intellectual Culture

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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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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin: United States
Series: American Intellectual Culture
Release date: December 2003
First published: October 2003
Authors: Peter S. Field
Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-8476-8843-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
LSN: 0-8476-8843-7
Barcode: 9780847688432

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