The Resource Understanding Emerson : "The American scholar" and his struggle for self-reliance, Kenneth S. Sacks
Understanding Emerson : "The American scholar" and his struggle for self-reliance, Kenneth S. Sacks
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- Summary
- A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost thoughts. Yet the circumstances around "The American Scholar" oration--his first great public address and the most celebrated talk in American academic history--suggest a different Emerson. In Understanding Emerson, Kenneth Sacks draws on a wealth of contemporary correspondence and diaries, much of it previously unexamined, to reveal a young intellectual struggling to define himself and his principles. Caught up in the fierce dispute between his Transcendentalist colleagues and Harvard, the secular bastion of Boston Unitarianism and the very institution he was invited to honor with the annual Phi Beta Kappa address, Emerson agonized over compromising his sense of self-reliance while simultaneously desiring to meet the expectations of his friends. Putting aside self-doubts and a resistance to controversy, in the end he produced an oration of extraordinary power and authentic vision that propelled him to greater awareness of social justice, set the standard for the role of the intellectual in America, and continues to point the way toward educational reform. In placing this singular event within its social and philosophical context, Sacks opens a window into America's nineteenth-century intellectual landscape as well as documenting the evolution of Emerson's idealism
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 199 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691099828
- Label
- Understanding Emerson : "The American scholar" and his struggle for self-reliance
- Title
- Understanding Emerson
- Title remainder
- "The American scholar" and his struggle for self-reliance
- Statement of responsibility
- Kenneth S. Sacks
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost thoughts. Yet the circumstances around "The American Scholar" oration--his first great public address and the most celebrated talk in American academic history--suggest a different Emerson. In Understanding Emerson, Kenneth Sacks draws on a wealth of contemporary correspondence and diaries, much of it previously unexamined, to reveal a young intellectual struggling to define himself and his principles. Caught up in the fierce dispute between his Transcendentalist colleagues and Harvard, the secular bastion of Boston Unitarianism and the very institution he was invited to honor with the annual Phi Beta Kappa address, Emerson agonized over compromising his sense of self-reliance while simultaneously desiring to meet the expectations of his friends. Putting aside self-doubts and a resistance to controversy, in the end he produced an oration of extraordinary power and authentic vision that propelled him to greater awareness of social justice, set the standard for the role of the intellectual in America, and continues to point the way toward educational reform. In placing this singular event within its social and philosophical context, Sacks opens a window into America's nineteenth-century intellectual landscape as well as documenting the evolution of Emerson's idealism
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sacks, Kenneth
- Dewey number
- 814/.3
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS1615.A84
- LC item number
- S23 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- United States
- Learning and scholarship in literature
- Self-reliance
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Understanding Emerson : "The American scholar" and his struggle for self-reliance, Kenneth S. Sacks
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-194) and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm50034887
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 199 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691099828
- Lccn
- 2002075963
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- 814.3 SA14 ; P ; XX-N ; N0205BT1.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780691099828
- (Sirsi) i9780691099828
- i0691099820
- Label
- Understanding Emerson : "The American scholar" and his struggle for self-reliance, Kenneth S. Sacks
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-194) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm50034887
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 199 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691099828
- Lccn
- 2002075963
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- 814.3 SA14 ; P ; XX-N ; N0205BT1.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780691099828
- (Sirsi) i9780691099828
- i0691099820
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