The influence of Indian thought on Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The influence of Indian thought on Ralph Waldo Emerson
（Studies in American literature, v. 38）
Edwin Mellen Press, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Between 1820, when Emerson started keeping his journal, and 1870, when "Society and Solitude" appeared, Indian thought played a number of complex roles in the articulation of the Emersonian self. Studies of Emerson's Orientalism, caught up on the archaeological excavation of sources, failed to view his Indian interest from the broader perspective of the history of ideas. In tracing Emerson's single great idea about the act of experiencing the world, this work aims to establish the relevance of Indian thought to the enactment of this process and the influence it had on his mode of expression.
Table of Contents
- Emerson's initiation to India - the Eurocentric vision, intellectual dissent and Indian thought
- the imperial self - "Indian superstition"
- Emerson's Indian career - 1820-1845
- major themes in Emerson - aspects of the self, a theory of illusion, on the problem of evil, compensation
- a social theory of man - a man of action, the complemental man
- Brahma - the essential man.
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