Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• HERWIG FRIEDL
• GREIL MARCUS
• WERNER SOLLORS

Titel

1838, July 15: Emerson shakes the foundations of traditional philosophy and established christian faith

Ist Teil von

• A New Literary History of America, 2012, p.244

Ort / Verlag

Harvard University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To this day, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1837 lecture “The American Scholar” has intrigued readers as the quintessential statement of a courageously in de pen dent departure in American culture and in the history of thinking in general; at the time, Emerson’s July 15, 1838, oration, commonly called the Divinity School Address, created quite a local and regional stir in Cambridge and the Boston area as “the latest form of infidelity,” as the conservative minister Andrews Norton memorably denounced Emerson’s address before the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School. The Divinity School Address has stood ever since as a momentous challenge