| Benjamin Kline - 2000 - 198 pages
...transcendentalist writers championed were expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who in 1841 wrote in "The Over-Soul": "We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the...animal, the tree: but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul." This philosophy emphasized the interconnectedness of life, becoming in... | |
| Claudia Franken - 2000 - 404 pages
...interest in a recovered naivety ol vision" (Tanner 1966: 190). Emerson had described an interchange where "the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one" ("The OverSoul" 1990: 178). Yet Stein's conception has earlier origins. Schopenhauer, too, in The World... | |
| Sheldon S. Wolin - 2001 - 664 pages
...contrasts as sharply as possible with Tocqueville's traveler. "The act of seeing," Emerson declared, "and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object are one."39 It was not that Tocqueville's conception of theory excludes the activist character of thinking... | |
| Catherine Tumber - 2002 - 220 pages
...testimony. "This deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is accessible to us," Emerson wrote, "is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour,...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one." 3 It is all too easily forgotten that with mystical utterances like these, Emerson sought to revitalize... | |
| Harry T. Hunt - 2003 - 382 pages
...part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. (Emerson, The Over-soul: 262) This is one of many allusions to Plotinus in the mature Emerson, in this... | |
| Berys Gaut, Paisley Livingston - 2003 - 312 pages
...and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing...and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.27 And the genius in particular is characterized by his access to this Over-soul: "The same Omniscience... | |
| Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 pages
...His first statement is a declaration that the soul's power is accessible, a power framed and reframed ("the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object"). Then Emerson shifts in the next sentences to a pair of instructive illustrations, the first of which... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 pages
...part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us. is not only selfsufficing and perfect in everv hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the... | |
| Michael Daniels - 2005 - 382 pages
...parts, is the soul [the Over-Soul, the World-Soul). And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. [italics added] (Wilber, 1995a, p. 284-285). In some endnotes, Wilber (1995a) attempts to explain why... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing...the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one" (E&L 386). In this unification, attended by a Wordsworthian "wise silence" and "deep power," Emerson... | |
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