Representative Men
| Author | : Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0674761057 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780674761056 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (056 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Representative Men by : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Download or read book Representative Men written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Judith Shklar has pointed out, Emerson built Representative Men around the principle of 'rotation, ' which had become a political axiom in Jacksonian America--the idea that no man, no matter how imposing, should be accorded permanent authority. Representative Men honors the language of democracy in its very title.