...Transcendentalist anticipation of what I want to say in Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address on the American Scholar: "The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet...the act of thought, is transferred to the record. Instantly the book becomes noxious: the guide is a tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...

...only one aspect of his conception that knowledge needs to be up-to-date, continually newly created: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...The books of an older period will not fit this."** In "The American Scholar" *That movement had been established and promoted by Francis Calley Gray,...

...to being the cross-dressing Jim Backus than Jim Stark.) As Emerson put it in The American Scholar: The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation...transferred to the record. The poet chanting, was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine also... as love of the hero corrupts into worship of...

...local, the perishable" (CW\, 55), and were therefore in need of constant revision; "each age . . . must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding" (CW I, 56).46 With his deep-seated a- or transhistoricism, Thoreau could discount the warp of temporality...

...anti-orthodoxe Spiel kann zur Orthodoxie werden... 40 2. Regelwerk - Methodik und Interesse "Each age must write its own books; or rather each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." - RW Emerson, "The American Scholar" Ich möchte in diesem Buch ein Stück Literaturgeschichte nachvollziehen....

...entirely excluded. Hence, each age must write its own books, else a great mischief arises, in which "the sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...act of thought, — is transferred to the record." Atop this misapprehension was constructed a veritable manufactory of books, written by those "who start...

...its own terms," echoing Ralph Waldo Emerson's earlier call in The American Scholar (1837): "Each age must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." Creating consensus in the United States after the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the movements for...

...entombment is the moment of institutionalization, the moment when, as he tells us in "The American Scholar," "the sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...the act of thought, is transferred to the record" (W, 1: 88). What this record commemorates, as the monument or tomb of the act of creation, is not the...

...arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him life; it went out from him truth.... Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness...transferred to the record. The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the chant is divine, also. The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward...

...College. Working his collegiate audience, he called for books relevant to a new generation of Americans: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books....succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."1 But Emerson was far from alone in emphasizing the saving grace of youthfulness. That same year,...