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Sto caricando le informazioni... Representative Men (1850)di Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Good Card inside "Birthday Greetings Mina" MW stamp Emerson is like Henry Adams--very confused most of the time and attempting to confuse his readers to make himself feel more comfortable. The grandiose style makes them look brilliant, unless you are brilliant and notice that it's a bunch of stupidity most of the time. His essay on Montaigne, the Skeptic, is the classic here and is a welcome addition to any collection of secondary sources on the French essayist. He makes some valid points about Shakespeare, most of his essay about Plato is worthwhile. That gets him four stars. But I'm subtracting one for his essay on Swedenborg, which is horrible. If I had balls, I'd subtract TWO stars for it. The problem is, if you haven't already read these authors, these essays make no sense; and even if you have, they add next to nothing to your knowledge of them. They don't help you make sense of them. They may even help you lose sense of them, if you're dumb enough to value Emerson over the authors themselves. And who on Earth would put Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Goethe--and Napoleon--together? The categorization itself is the height of stupidity. And they're mostly in chronological order, but then he places Swedenborg before Montaigne rather than between Shakespeare and Napoleon, which makes no sense at all. Most importantly, why in God's name would he give Swedenborg the longest essay and not any of the others? Alas, because he is confused by the Swede and is using the press to try and sort his own thoughts out. Oh, well. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet, known for. A staunch advocate of individualism and clear-sighted critic of societal pressures, he led the early 19th century's Transcendentalist movement and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement. Representative Men contains the following seven lectures by Emerson: Uses of Great Men Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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