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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Representative Men: Seven Lectures

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PhilosophyHistorical FiguresGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1646795423
ISBN13: 9781646795420
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Jan 23 1905
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by great men in society, and the remaining six each extol the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great. Emerson was inspired by the Romantic belief that there exists a general mind that expresses itself with special intensity through certain individual lives. It reflects an appreciation of genius as a quality distributed to the few for the benefit of the many.

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