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