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"Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, a political theorist who defined democracy as "government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people"--Words that inspired Abraham Lincoln." "American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism, the first major modern biography...
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"Readers of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) did not react as favourably as expected by its author. Therefore, when Johann Schultz, Kant's colleague at the University of Konigsberg and lifelong defender of the new critical philosophy, offered to prepare a review of the Critique, Kant gratefully accepted. In the end, Schultz's proposed review became a book, published in 1784." "James C. Morrison here offers the first English version of Schultz's...
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Originally delivered as lectures at Harvard, this study of Emerson analyzes the Emersonian spirit, its inspiration, and its significance in the national experience. Howe believes that history gave Emerson his opportunity and took it away. Emerson became the spokesman for the self-reliant new man he believed had arisen. But his vision, idealism, and optimism were overtaken by problems of slavery, a boom-and-bust economy, and the movement toward mass...
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