...local, the perishable" (CW\, 55), and were therefore in need of constant revision; "each age . . . must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding" (CW I, 56).46 With his deep-seated a- or transhistoricism, Thoreau could discount the warp of temporality...

...anti-orthodoxe Spiel kann zur Orthodoxie werden... 40 2. Regelwerk - Methodik und Interesse "Each age must write its own books; or rather each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." - RW Emerson, "The American Scholar" Ich möchte in diesem Buch ein Stück Literaturgeschichte nachvollziehen....

...entirely excluded. Hence, each age must write its own books, else a great mischief arises, in which "the sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...act of thought, — is transferred to the record." Atop this misapprehension was constructed a veritable manufactory of books, written by those "who start...

...its own terms," echoing Ralph Waldo Emerson's earlier call in The American Scholar (1837): "Each age must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." Creating consensus in the United States after the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the movements for...

...entombment is the moment of institutionalization, the moment when, as he tells us in "The American Scholar," "the sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...the act of thought, is transferred to the record" (W, 1: 88). What this record commemorates, as the monument or tomb of the act of creation, is not the...

...College. Working his collegiate audience, he called for books relevant to a new generation of Americans: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books....succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."1 But Emerson was far from alone in emphasizing the saving grace of youthfulness. That same year,...

...potentially harmful version of the creative process. A "grave mischief" arises, according to Emerson, when "The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...the act of thought, is transferred to the record." Given the fact that only the record remains, the course the editors of Emerson's sermons have steered,...

...with it rather than immerse ourselves in the cycle: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet...record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man; henceforward it is setded, the book is perfect; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue"...

...College. Working his collegiate audience, he called for books relevant to a new generation of Americans: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books....succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." 1 But Emerson was far from alone in emphasizing the saving grace of youthfulness. That same year, as...

...did indeed help educate the American scholar, but nature and action did more. Books were a danger if "the sacredness which attaches to the act of creation...act of thought — is transferred to the record." When that happens, books about books are then written by (mere) Thinkers, not by Man Thinking. "Meek...