Emerson's Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Résumé :
This complete collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays offers the towering wisdom and intellectual prowess of the author in hardcover. This edition contains both series of Emerson's most famous essays, filled with quotable passages concerning different aspects of life. Herein are texts such as Nature and The Oversoul, free of embellishments or abridgment. Owing to their unique style, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson have found an appreciative and enduring audience. Seen by many as the guiding light for the individualist philosophy that was to underpin the astonishing growth of the United States, Emerson's essays are a superb demonstration of the rigorous thought and intellectual contributions he made to the world around him. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a tireless and diligent public intellectual who would deliver over 1500 lectures over the course of his career, educating thousands of people within academia and wider society about his beliefs, principles and personal philosophy....

Biographie:
The American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882), also known by his middle name Waldo, was also the founder of the transcendentalist movement in the middle of the 19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society. Friedrich Nietzsche considered him the most gifted of the Americans and Walt Whitman referred to him as his master. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay Nature. Following this work, he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's intellectual Declaration of Independence.

Sommaire:
This complete collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays offers the towering wisdom and intellectual prowess of the author in hardcover. This edition contains both series of Emerson's most famous essays, filled with quotable passages concerning different aspects of life. Herein are texts such as Nature and The Oversoul, free of embellishments or abridgment. Owing to their unique style, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson have found an appreciative and enduring audience. Seen by many as the guiding light for the individualist philosophy that was to underpin the astonishing growth of the United States, Emerson's essays are a superb demonstration of the rigorous thought and intellectual contributions he made to the world around him. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a tireless and diligent public intellectual who would deliver over 1500 lectures over the course of his career, educating thousands of people within academia and wider society about his beliefs, principles and personal philosophy....