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Article: Emerson's influence on European philosophy.(Nietzsche and Emerson: An Elective Affinity )(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- March 22, 1994
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George Stack, Nietzsche and Emerson: An Elective Affinity (Ohio UP, 1992), 379 pp., $39.95 cloth.
George Stack has rendered Emersonian scholarship an invaluable vice in tackling the first in-depth study of the often observed but analyzed affinity between the American essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. This service is the more impressive because Stack's forte is not literary studies, but philosophy. Thus the work represents encouraging trends with regard to Emerson in both disciplines. In literary criticism, there are signs that the nineties may be a time in which such cross-cultural literary investigations will begin ...
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