...therefore, given the danger, have to offer reasons for refusing any association or acts of convention. "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me." Why should he be generous to the needy? "Are they my poor?" He will go to prison for a cause that is...

...only to itself, above all compromise, beyond all cooperation. This is the Emerson who calls on us to "shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me," who insists that "When the good is near you . . . you shall not discern the footprints of any other;...

...the future as "steps, but without a path" (1995: 8). Elsewhere he invokes a passage from Emerson: "l shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. l would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. l hope it is somewhat better than whim at last,...

...but has unscrambled them (pp. 122-3). my brothers: see Matt. 12: 47—50. See also Emerson's SR, 30: 'I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.' bury his father: Matt. 8: 21—2. is wrong: Emerson in SR: 'Imitation is suicide' (27) ; 'Insist on...

...altogether to make such a remark to a settled congregation that he would have to meet week after week. "I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me," he might tell an audience in Indiana. Next week he would be in Michigan, and would never know whether...

...no longer have real meaning for you in our crisis culture."2 These were not, of course, new ideas. "I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson before the Civil War. Nietzsche made a career out of the same thought in...

...short, quite literally, by the changes in her writing. 25. Emerson famously wrote in "Self-Reliance," "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when...last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation" (EL, p. 262). 26. See Suleiman for an account of the experience of women in French Surrealist circles....

...nature"; "... the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it"; "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me" (E, 262). In these assertions, as in the most polemical passages of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, which I...

...view of the individual, integration is an ethic of self-transformation — an Emersonian summons to "shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me." It teaches a rejection of one's origins and a contempt for those parts of the self that resist transformation....

...of his lines is particularly revealing: The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines....mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. In fairness to Emerson, that statement is not in context with another part of his essay: I shall endeavour...