| Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 páginas
...Yet in spite of Emerson's admonition in "Self-Reliance" that "man is timid and apologetic ... he does not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage" (Works 2:67) we can see from the passage just quoted from Higginson that Higginson is far more "studious"... | |
| Stanley Cavell - 1994 - 214 páginas
...INTO "Self-Reliance" is anything but veiled. At the center of the essay is a paragraph that begins: "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright;...'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage." It is my impression that readers of Emerson have not been impressed by this allusion, or repetition,... | |
| Stanley Cavell - 1994 - 214 páginas
...INTO "Self-Reliance" is anything but veiled. At the center of the essay is a paragraph that begins: "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' T am,' but quotes some saint or sage." It is my impression that readers of Emerson have not been impressed... | |
| David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 páginas
...mind the figure of the upright position that Emerson evokes midway through the essay, complaining, "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright;...'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage" (CTF 2:38). The upright position, Man standing, refers to a willingness to act in the world, principally... | |
| Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 páginas
...provocative paper "Being Odd, Getting Even: Threats to Individuality."35 The passage in question is this one: "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright;...not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage."36 Once he points it out, one must be struck, as Cavell is, by the seeming allusion to Descartes's... | |
| Harold J. Morowitz - 1993 - 239 páginas
...taxonomic know-nothingness. More likely she was restating in her own syntax Ralph Waldo Emerson's thought: Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," or "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.... | |
| Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - 1994 - 278 páginas
...out actively to inherit, in a specially American way, in "Self -Reliance," when he says, for example, "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright;...not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage."13 For Cavell the "pivot on which skepticisms turns" is not in the potential answers that such... | |
| Shawn James Rosenheim, Stephen Rachman - 1995 - 388 páginas
...into "Self-Reliance" is anything but veiled. At the center of the essay is a paragraph that begins: "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright;...'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage" (Emerson 1960, 157). It is my impression that readers of Emerson have not been impressed by this allusion,... | |
| 1909 - 498 páginas
...force is withdrawn from your proper life. Man is timid and apologetic. He is no longer upright. He dare not say, ' I think ; ' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage." GOD'S SAVING HEALTH JOHN DEEM Peace be unto thee. Luke 10:5, 6. Is any sick among you? Jas. 5:14. Have... | |
| Cary Wolfe - 1998 - 212 páginas
...Descartes in "Self-Reliance" assumes new significance: "Man is timid and apologetic," Emerson writes; "he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage." For Cavell, the power and rigor of Emerson's revision of the Cartesian proof of selfhood is that it... | |
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