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Essays - First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every 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 and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul”.

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. . .How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary! So let us always sit. Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood? All men have my blood and I have all men's. Not for that will I adopt their petulance or folly, even to the extent of being ashamed of it. But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation. At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act. "What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love."

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totally love Bakhtin! Not just useful for analyzing speeches, but also good training for aspiring writers!

A avaliação de cinco estrela vem do fato de que não há bem um juízo de valor a ser feito da obra. É um texto fundamental para um campo amplo de estudo desde a linguística à teoria literária. Dito isso, é uma leitura densa, escrita num estilo não muito diferente de uma exposição dialética (Marx, n’O

Excellent book for those who are interested in Bakhtin's theories of dialogic exposition.

A dialogização que se estabelece em vários níveis e instâncias no discurso e suas consequências na classificação dos seus gêneros é o motto do livro, ao menos nas partes em que os escritos não parecem anotações esparsas do autor que necessitariam de pesquisa intensa para desvendar o significado.

This Book, like almost everything Bakhtin wrote is profound and food for thought. Unfortunately, and this is the drawback with some of the English Language translations and compilations, it is also quite uneven, both in subject matter and content. The Reader should not be deterred. It is worth readi

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