Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Representative Men: Seven Lectures Emerson Ralph Waldo Wydawca: Harvard University Press Data wydania: 1996 ISBN: 9780674761056 Liczba stron: 501 Format: 235 x 156 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: As Judith Shklar has pointed out, Emerson built Representative Men around the principle of rotation, which had become a political axiom in Jacksonian America-the idea that no man, no matter how imposing, should be accorded permanent authority. Representative Men honors the language of democracy in its very title.