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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peter S. Field
其他書名
The Making of a Democratic Intellectual
出版
Rowman & Littlefield
, 2002
主題
History / United States / General
History / United States / 19th Century
History / Civilization
History / Social History
Literary Criticism / American / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
Political Science / History & Theory
Social Science / Regional Studies
ISBN
0847688429
9780847688425
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8pFaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.