Representative Men

Name: Representative Men
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781465577504

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extol the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great:Plato Emanuel Swedenborg Michel de Montaigne William Shakespeare Napoleon Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First published 1800 232 pages

Category: Philosophy
Priority: Recommended
Author works: 3
Editions known: 62

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DDC 814.3 s LCC PS-1621.00000000.A1 1883 BiographyCivilization, westernGoethe, johann wolfgang von, 1749-1832Montaigne, michel de, 1533-1592Napoleon i, emperor of the french, 1769-1821Philosophy of naturePhilosophy, americanPlato

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