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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.
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Representative men, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- 1907
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- Title
- Representative men
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Publisher
- Bernhard Tauchnitz
- Released
- 1907
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, True Stories, Biographies, Philosophical Topics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Opinion Journalism & Essays
- Original title
- Representative men
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- 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.