Emerson and the Conduct of Life - Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work

Informationen zum Autor David M. Robinson, with reports by J. Parkhouse, H.S. Owen-John, B.E. Vyner and D.W.H. Allen Klappentext Robinson discusses each of Emerson's major later works noting their increasing orientation to a philosophy of the 'conduct of life'. Zusammenfassung Robinson discusses each of Emerson's major later works noting their increasing orientation to a philosophy of the 'conduct of life'. These books represent Emerson's attempt to forge a philosophy based on the centrality of domestic life! vocation and social relations and they reveal Emerson as an ethical philosopher who stressed the spiritual value of human relations! work and social action. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The Mystic and the Self-made Saint; 2. Politics and Ecstasy; 3. The Text of Experience; 4. 'Here or Nowhere': Essays: Second Series; 5. The Eclipse of the Hero: Representative Men; 6. The Old and New Worlds: English Traits; 7. 'Work is Victory': The Conduct of Life; 8. 'Plain Living and High Thinking': Society and Solitude; 9. Toward a Grammar of the Moral Life; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Robinson David M., David M Robinson, David M. Robinson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2009
• EAN: 9780521101318
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10131-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies