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Philosophy
Representative Men
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Emerson studies Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe as cultural types.
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Representative Men
“Representative Men” develops Emerson’s philosophy through six exemplary figures: the philosopher, mystic, skeptic, poet, man of the world, and writer. The book links biography, criticism, and moral reflection in a distinctive transcendentalist voice.
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Representative Men is a public-domain work: the author died in 1882, and the text was first published in 1850. This edition uses the original English text.
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- 01Full text
- 02SEVEN LECTURES
- 03BY
- 04RALPH WALDO EMERSON
- 05I. USES OF GREAT MEN.
- 06II. PLATO; OR, THE PHILOSOPHER.
- 07PLATO: NEW READINGS
- 08III. SWEDENBORG; OR, THE MYSTIC.
- 09IV. MONTAIGNE; OR, THE SKEPTIC.
- 10V. SHAKSPEARE; OR, THE POET.
- 11VI. NAPOLEON; OR, THE MAN OF THE WORLD.
- 12VII. GOETHE; OR, THE WRITER
- 13THE END.
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