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Ralph Waldo Emerson: the Making of a Democratic Intellectual.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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From: Church History
Date: 20050301
Author:Le Beau, Bryan F.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual. By Peter S. Field. American Intellectual Culture Series. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. xiv + 272 pp. $36.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Field notes at the start that there is little we do not know about Emerson's intellectual life and writings, and that those conversant with both will find few new "facts" in his book. Instead, Field explores Emerson's public life and career. Field argues that Emerson was not as committed to the isolated, individualist life of the mind and philosophical idealism as others have ...

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