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Journal Article
Revisiting “The American Scholar”
2024
Overview
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s deeply individualistic doctrine of “self-reliance” is generally viewed as antagonistic to most of the moral and political reform movements of 19th century America. But this account ignores the connection between the ethos of self-reliance and Emerson’s vision of reformed higher education as developed in his influential lecture “The American Scholar.” Emerson’s presentation of the ideal of scholarship supports a conception of the university as a venue of contested academic space capable of providing a model for robust critique of the prevailing materialist and conformist tendencies of American mass democracy. In this respect, Emerson arguably provides a very early and homegrown American argument for academic freedom that may repay further consideration today.
