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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalist philosopher whose ideas on nature and art appear.
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Also known as Emerson
First appearance: ii
Ralph Waldo Emerson shows up with force in The Disintegration of Architecture: 1820-1865. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Cited as one of the last figures of the halcyon day of American civilization, though not at home in Europe's physical environment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson first appears in 0025 ii.
In The Disintegration of Architecture: 1820-1865: Cited as one of the last figures of the halcyon day of American civilization, though not at home in Europe's physical environment.
Later, in Chapter V: The Machine Age and the Dehumanization of Architecture: Noted for his individualism being transformed by Nietzsche and becoming the mystic doctrine of the Superman, in a parallel to the transatlantic exaggeration of American modernism.
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- The Disintegration of Architecture: 1820-1865
- Chapter V: The Machine Age and the Dehumanization of Architecture
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See Ralph Waldo Emerson in ii