Emerson and the conduct of life : pragmatism and ethical purpose in the later work /
'I like not the man who is thinking how to be good,' Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, 'but the man thinking how to accomplish his work'. The ethical emphasis on work and activity signals the shift in his thinking that is the subject of Emerson and the Conduct of Life. In this book, Dav...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- The mystic and the self-made man
- Politics and ecstasy
- The text of experience
- "Here and nowhere": Essays: Second series
- The eclipse of the hero: Representative men
- The old and new worlds: English traits
- "Work is victory": The Conduct of life
- "Plain living and high thinking": Society and solitude
- Toward a grammar of the moral life.
