 | Steven R. Carter - 1998 - 220 pages
...all its weaknesses. She is a reminder of Emerson's strictures that "society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater," and that "whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist" (Selected Essays 151), and she disregards... | |
 | James M. Jasper - 2009 - 328 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...not realities and creators, but names and customs." Here is the familiar artistic rebellion against commercialism. But instead of calling for communalism... | |
 | Edward W. Lehman - 2000 - 276 pages
...fulfillment of private purposes, chiefly material well-being — "a joint-stock company," Emerson said, "in which the members agree, for the better securing...shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater."14 Hence political institutions aim at more bread, more securely guaranteed, at economic growth... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...individual's ability to grow, which is also his or her self-sufficiency: "Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...request is conformity. Self-Reliance is its aversion" (E, 261). Solvency, by contrast, would be precisely a kind of monetary singularity; loosely speaking,... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2001 - 310 pages
...freedom, independence, and, ultimately, of self. "Society," Emerson warns, "is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing...request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion" (cw 2 : 29). Indeed, Emerson goes on to point out, in his famous essay on the subject, that the would-be... | |
 | John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - 2002 - 321 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. I still agree with many of Emerson's stirring aphorisms about self-reliance, but I don't agree that... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
...he possessed the modest means of subsisting without truckling to society, that "joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." His Aunt Mary thought his defection was devilish, his step-grandfather Ripley thought it insane, but... | |
 | Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a jointstock company, in which the members agree for the better securing...request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion" (CW 2:29). Emerson, in short, did not want to sell out — he did not want to mortgage his individuality,... | |
 | Richard Poirier - 2003 - 334 pages
...boys themselves, once grown, will also have to pay. "Society is a joint-stock company," he writes, "in which the members agree for the better securing...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." While "nonchalance" may be a "healthy attitude," the health of the body requires that we eat, and the... | |
 | Stephen Young - 2003 - 248 pages
...is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing...to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." 18 distinction in determination, persistence, endurance, and courage that determines the quality of... | |
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. 
