Emerson's Life in Science : : The Culture of Truth /

Emerson's Life in Science : : The Culture of Truth / / Laura Dassow Walls.

Ralph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of transcendentalism rather than the realities of contemporary science and technology. In Laura Dassow Walls's view Emerson was a leader of the secular avant-garde in his day. He helped to estab...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Walls, Laura Dassow,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2003
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 4 line drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Sphinx at the Crossroads CHAPTER TWO Converting the World CHAPTER TWO Converting the World
  • CHAPTER TWO. Converting the World
  • CHAPTER THREE. Gnomic Science
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Global Polarity and the Single Life
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Truth against the World
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Solar Eye of Science
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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