Word: emersonian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough to think about politics without recognizing that each of us is more complex than any Emersonian ideal. We are more than merely isolated individuals aiming for a monogamous, white picket fenced-in American dream. The myth of the individual self only leads to an acceptance of politics as boiling down into an economic game, waged by those who consider it worthwhile after weighing its costs and potential benefits...
...their daughter independence from the start: she was delivered in a birthing tub without benefit of doctor or midwife. Her mother Lisa Blair Hathaway says she wanted her daughter to have a feeling of "floating." Her parents seemed to embrace a philosophy that was a mishmash of '60s idealism, Emersonian self-reliance and New Age cliche. Hathaway describes herself as an artist and a spiritual healer. While Jessica was mostly raised in Massachusetts, she lived in Pescadero, California, a tiny onetime fishing village where old dogs lazily patrol the streets because there is no traffic. It was 25 miles...
This charge could just as easily be directed toward the American editorial columnist; it is his or her office as well. In the Emersonian spirit, therefore, let me shine the light of conscientious scrutiny upon the President's recent State of the Union message. There remain quite a few facts to be unearthed from the expertly crafted appearances of that evening...
...most Japanese -- like most Americans -- place the responsibility for U.S. economic troubles largely on Americans themselves. "Whatever happened to the good old Emersonian credo that if you build a better mousetrap, the world . will beat a path to your door?" asks Masao Kunihiro, an anthropologist who is also a member of the Diet's Upper House. "That is what made America what it is today, economically and industrially powerful. But many of us, rightly or wrongly, now feel that the U.S. is no longer turning out mousetraps which are better than ours. Sadly, there's been an erosion...
...lengthy introduction, Cavell presents his conception of Emersonian (or Moral) Perfectionism. Resisting the possibility of an "essential definition" of Perfectionism, Cavell seeks to establish "an open-ended thematics." Perfectionism does not represent a competitor to today's most prominent moral theories (versions of utilitarianism and Kantianism). Instead, it constitutes a dimension of the moral life founded on the possibility of self-knowledge and transformation. Perfectionism receives extensive treatment in the writings of Emerson...