...soul becomes; for, that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputations to shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside." (CW 2, 40). Die Parallelen zu Fichtes Angriffen auf das humanistische Bildungsideal, das in Fichtes...

...the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside." Poirier marches Emerson into poststructuralist territory in order to deny the soul itself, which is...

...self-trust altogether, Emerson simply cautions us not to overly valorize the act of obedience: "To speak of reliance, is a poor external way of speaking. Speak...rather of that which relies, because it works and is" (CW2, 40). This second line is oblique. The temptation is to read "that which relies, because it works...

...145). The crisis broached here concerns the unfolding of nature that is our own unfolding, one that "confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside" (CW2, 40). Yet rather than forgo self-trust altogether, Emerson simply cautions us not to overly valorize...