rozwoj-i-zycie: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Conformity and Subjection. Abstract I hope to have shown, in the past three chapters, that the experience of reading Emerson is eclectic and provocative and full of interpretive difficulty. Emerson’s style is impressionistic, alternately playful and didactic, and full of deliberate tension and contradiction. His writing captures diverse moods and points of view without often trying to integrate them. His essays provoke, as much by stark assertion as by surprising omission. Reading Mill is very different. While he, too, had very catholic interests and sympathies, Mill’s ambitions were more often constructive than perspectival. Mill aspired to fashion unlikely syntheses and to resolve dispara…

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Mam nadzieję, że teraz nadszedł kres konformizmu i ugodowości. (…) Nigdy się nie kłaniajmy i więcej się nie usprawiedliwiajmy. (…) Napiętnujmy gładką przeciętność i brudne zadowolenie naszych czasów i stawmy im czoła.