03507nam 2200661Ia 450 991081480470332120200520144314.00-7914-8018-61-4294-9821-8(CKB)1000000000477704(OCoLC)173152429(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575917(SSID)ssj0000145969(PQKBManifestationID)11146581(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000145969(PQKBWorkID)10182996(PQKB)11569869(MiAaPQ)EBC3407491(MdBmJHUP)muse6534(Au-PeEL)EBL3407491(CaPaEBR)ebr10575917(DE-B1597)684018(DE-B1597)9780791480182(EXLCZ)99100000000047770420060718d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEmerson & Eros the making of a cultural hero /Len Gougeon1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20071 online resource (280 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-7077-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Psychomythic Humanism -- The Spirit and the Flesh -- “God’s Child” -- “The Devil’s Child” -- The Call to Serve -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexThis critical biography traces the spiritual, psychological, and intellectual growth of one of America's foremost oracles and prophets, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). Beginning with his undergraduate career at Harvard and spanning the range of his adult life, the book examines the complex, often painful emotional journey inward that would eventually transform Emerson from an average Unitarian minister into one of the century's most formidable intellectual figures. By connecting Emerson's inner life with his outer life, Len Gougeon illustrates a virtually seamless relationship between Emerson's Transcendental philosophy and his later career as a social reformer, a rebel who sought to "unsettle all things" in an effort to redeem his society.In tracing the path of Emerson's evolution, Gougeon makes use of insights by Joseph Campbell, Erich Neumann, Mircea Eliade, and N. O. Brown. Like Emerson, all of these thinkers directly experienced the fragmentation and dehumanization of the Western world, and all were influenced both directly and indirectly by Emerson and his philosophy. Ultimately, this study demonstrates how Emerson's philosophy would become a major force of liberal reformation in American society, a force whose impact is still felt today.Emerson and ErosLiterature and mythAuthors, American19th centuryBiographyTranscendentalists (New England)BiographySocial reformersUnited StatesBiographyUnited StatesIntellectual life19th centuryLiterature and myth.Authors, AmericanTranscendentalists (New England)Social reformers814/.3Gougeon Len1721868MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814804703321Emerson & Eros4121792UNINA