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Ralph Waldo Emerson and the New Aristocracy :Greatness and the great man in democratic society.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson and the New Aristocracy :
Reminder of title:	Greatness and the great man in democratic society.
Author:	Ewing, Samuel Edgar, IV.
Description:	270 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-05, Section: A, page: 1828.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-05A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3091549
ISBN:	0496392581

Ralph Waldo Emerson and the New Aristocracy :Greatness and the great man in democratic society.
Ewing, Samuel Edgar, IV.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and the New Aristocracy :Greatness and the great man in democratic society. [electronic resource] - 270 p.

Adviser: Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2003.

This thesis explores the relationship between greatness and great men in democratic society as it was developed in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although John Dewey has cast Emerson as the "philosopher of democracy," this thesis contends that the reality of Emerson's thought is more complex. Emerson presents us with a peculiar combination of both democratic and aristocratic ideals.

ISBN: 0496392581Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and the New Aristocracy :Greatness and the great man in democratic society.
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520 # $a This thesis explores the relationship between greatness and great men in democratic society as it was developed in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although John Dewey has cast Emerson as the "philosopher of democracy," this thesis contends that the reality of Emerson's thought is more complex. Emerson presents us with a peculiar combination of both democratic and aristocratic ideals.
520 # $a This thesis rejects the prevailing view in modern scholarship that Emerson overcame this difficulty by putting great men to work as society's "representatives." Rather, it is shown that Emerson's great men maintain their distinction as an aristocratic element within democratic society. In the end, great men and democratic society form a contentious but nevertheless coherent social unit. Emerson suggests a way in which aristocratic greatness and hierarchy can co-exist with democratic society and the claim to democratic equality.
520 # $a While it is true that Emerson was the champion of self-reliance and democratic individualism, he was also a believer in the romantic ideal of the natural genius and what he termed the "New Aristocracy." As with so many political thinkers of the nineteenth century writing after the democratic revolutions, Emerson was acutely concerned with the fate of greatness and great men in the new social order. Some, like Thomas Jefferson and John Stuart Mill, saw democracy as a mechanism for promoting the natural aristocracy while others, like Alexis de Tocqueville, perceived of democracy as a threat to greatness. In a sense, Emerson embodies both the optimism of Jefferson and the skepticism of Tocqueville. His life and work can be seen as the struggle to reconcile these competing judgments.
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