David M. Robinson, Robinson David M.

Emerson and the Conduct of Life

Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Robinson discusses each of Emerson's major later works noting their increasing orientation to a philosophy of the 'conduct of life'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780521101318
• ISBN-10: 052110131X
• Artikelnr.: 25583552

Autorenporträt

David M. Robinson, with reports by J. Parkhouse, H.S. Owen-John, B.E. Vyner and D.W.H. Allen

Inhaltsangabe

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.