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Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
ISBN 13 : 1603890165
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Transcendentalism: Essential Essays of Emerson and Thoreau: Literary Touchstone Classic written by and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
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ISBN 13 : 9781608435920
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Transcendentalism written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721824953
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (249 download)
Download or read book The Transcendentalist written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings (Modern Library Classics) Paperback - January 10, 2006 by Ralph Waldo Emerson Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery. Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive anthology contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their fellow visionaries. There are also reflections on the movement by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This remarkable volume introduces the radical innovations of a brilliant group of thinkers whose impact on religious thought, social reform, philosophy, and literature continues to reverberate in the twenty-first century. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081297509X
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The American Transcendentalists written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery. Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive anthology contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their fellow visionaries. There are also reflections on the movement by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This remarkable volume introduces the radical innovations of a brilliant group of thinkers whose impact on religious thought, social reform, philosophy, and literature continues to reverberate in the twenty-first century.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500662059
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Essays, First Series written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays: First Series, is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1841, concerning transcendentalism. This book contains "History" "Self-Reliance" and "Compensation" among others
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0679641424
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Standing on the bare ground--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space--all mean egotism vanishes,' Emerson wrote in Nature, his statement of the principles of transcendentalism. 'I become a transparent eyeball.' Nature, published in 1836 when Emerson was thirty-three, is collected here with his book of observations on the English people; a famous sermon against administering communion in church; a sketch of his step-grandfather; the eulogy he delivered at the funeral of his Concord friend and neighbor Henry David Thoreau; twenty-three poems; and addresses, lectures, and essays on such subjects as slavery, self-reliance, and organized Christianity's obsession with the person of Jesus. Emerson called transcendentalism another word for idealism--'hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry.' Considered intensely radical at a time when materialism and a rigid form of Christianity were ascendant, he urged Americans to 'enjoy an original relation to the universe.' These selections span Emerson's career as author and traveling lecturer, and chart his evolving thought: the concepts of the 'over-soul,' individualism without egotism, and antimaterialism; a belief in intuition, independence, and 'the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions.'
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ISBN 13 : 9781420947267
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Book Rating : 4.9/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie P Wilson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054418422X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)
Download or read book CliffsNotes on Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism written by Leslie P Wilson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism explores in depth, but also in easy-to-understand terms, transcendentalism—the religious, political, and literary movement that captured the minds of such literary figures as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the first half of the 19th century. This guide helps you to understand the various tenets of transcendentalism, as well as how Thoreau and Emerson became the two most well-known figures associated with the movement and how the transcendentalist philosophy is reflected in their work. In addition to introducing you to the basics of understanding transcendentalism, this guide also gives you the following: Examinations of the lives of Thoreau and Emerson Detailed summaries of and commentaries on many of their transcendentalist writings, such as Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walden Critical essays on Emerson and Thoreau's reputation and influence A review section that tests your knowledge A Resource Center full of books, articles, and Internet sites Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537062594
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Self-Reliance and Other Essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays & correspondence and more than 1,500 public lectures and speeches across the United States. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays & correspondence and speeches encompasses a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability of humankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures and speeches first, then revised them for print. His most famous collections of essays are contained in this volume and they were originally published in the 1840's 1841. In addition to twelve classic Ralph Waldo Emerson essays, this anthology volume also inludes the core of Ralph Waldo Emerson's thinking. This anthology volume includes Waldo's well known essay; Self-Reliance. Self Reliance contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas. Whether derived from an Emerson speech, lecture, essay, or correspondence, this edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson's work is an invaluable literature compilation.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537056470
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (564 download)
Download or read book Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays & correspondence and more than 1,500 public lectures and speeches across the United States. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays & correspondence and speeches encompasses a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability of humankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures and speeches first, then revised them for print. In Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Nature, Emerson puts forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Within the essay, Emerson divides nature into four usages; Commodity, Beauty, Language, and Discipline. According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, those four distinctions define the ways by which humans use nature for their basic needs. Emerson followed the success of his Nature essay with a speech called The American Scholar, which together with his previous lectures laid the foundation for transcendentalism and his literary career.
Author : Tiffany K. Wayne
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109164
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism written by Tiffany K. Wayne and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a reference guide to transcendentalism, with articles on significant works, writers, concepts and more.
Author : Richard G. Geldard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101144114
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Essential Transcendentalists written by Richard G. Geldard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest abounds in the work of the Transcendentalists, such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott. Each year, tens of thousands of readers rediscover Transcendental thought in books and articles, and in visits to historic sites, such as Walden Pond. But few appreciate the truly mystical and contemplative qualities of the Transcendentalists, and the spiritual movements and figures they have since inspired. As Richard G. Geldard-one of today's leading scholars of Emerson-illustrates in The Essential Transcendentalists, Transcendentalism adds up to a school of practical spiritual philosophy that aims to guide the individual toward inner development, much like that of Stoicism in Western antiquity. This current of New England mysticism has influenced modern-day luminaries as diverse as essayist Annie Dillard and Ernest Holmes, founder of the worldwide Religious Science movement. Through revealing commentary, historical overview, and selections from classic works, The Essential Transcendentalists provides a distinctive and heretofore neglected examination of the spiritual breadth and depth of "Yankee mysticism."
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440638284
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Spiritual Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise volume collects the core writings that have made Ralph Waldo Emerson into a key source of insight for spiritual seekers of every faith—with an introduction by the bestselling philosopher Jacob Needleman. Here is the essential collection of Emerson’s spiritual thought for those readers who understand the transformative quality of ideas. It is concise and suited to years of rereading and contemplation, offering the essays that trace the arc of the inner message brought by America’s “Yankee Mystic.” The Spiritual Emerson features many of Emerson’s landmark works. Yet also included are overlooked classics, such as the essays “Fate” and “Success,” which served as major sources of inspiration to some of the leading American metaphysical thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The introduction by religious scholar and philosopher Jacob Needleman frames—historically and philosophically—the development of Emerson’s thought and explores why it has such a powerful hold on us today.
Author : Philip F. Gura
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429922885
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book American Transcendentalism written by Philip F. Gura and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Comprehensive History of Transcendentalism American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the America Civil War. Philip F. Gura masterfully traces their intellectual genealogy to transatlantic religious and philosophical ideas, illustrating how these informed the fierce local theological debates that, so often first in Massachusetts and eventually throughout America, gave rise to practical, personal, and quixotic attempts to improve, even perfect the world. The transcendentalists would painfully bifurcate over what could be attained and how, one half epitomized by Ralph Waldo Emerson and stressing self-reliant individualism, the other by Orestes Brownson, George Ripley, and Theodore Parker, emphasizing commitment to the larger social good. By the 1850s, the uniquely American problem of slavery dissolved differences as transcendentalists turned ever more exclusively to abolition. Along with their early inheritance from European Romanticism, America's transcendentalists abandoned their interest in general humanitarian reform. By war's end, transcendentalism had become identified exclusively with Emersonian self-reliance, congruent with the national ethos of political liberalism and market capitalism.
Author : Robert A. Gross
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 1250859077
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Transcendentalists and Their World written by Robert A. Gross and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the eminent and award-winning historian Robert A. Gross comes his long-awaited, immersive journey through Concord in the age of Emerson and Thoreau, The Transcendentalists and Their World. One of The Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Why Concord? How did a small and seemingly quiet village in the hinterlands of Boston become, by popular reckoning, the birthplace of two revolutions—the American War of Independence that began with shots fired by the local Minutemen, and the American Renaissance of literature and thought that began with the Transcendentalists’ challenge to established pieties? In The Transcendentalists and Their World, the distinguished historian Robert A. Gross gives a rich and beautifully detailed account of the town that Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called home. Their Concord, he shows, was primed for revolt, and was hardly a sleepy, bucolic place fit only for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived in an age of transformation. A place of more than two thousand souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, one whose small, ordered society, founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen, was dramatically unsettled by the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy while the town became more tightly integrated with the wider world. These changes posed a challenge to a society built on inherited institutions and involuntary associations as citizens placed a new premium on autonomy and choice. Concord was ripe for Emerson and Thoreau. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a town and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the reaches of the universe for spiritual truths—and took stock of the rapidly changing contours of their surroundings. It shows us familiar literary figures alongside their neighbors—white and Black, devout and blasphemous, and situated at every level of the social order—and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community has been recovered so richly and located so meaningfully within the larger American story.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807077191
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (771 download)
Download or read book The Spiritual Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) is known best in the twenty-first century as a literary innovator and early architect of American intellectual culture, but his writings still offer spiritual sustenance to the thoughtful reader. The Spiritual Emerson, originally published on the two hundredth anniversary of the writer's birth, brings together the writings that articulate Emerson's spiritual vision and promise the greatest relevance to today's reader.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500508548
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-13 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Foundation of Transcendentalism. "Nature" is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In this essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be understood by studying nature. Emerson's visit to the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris inspired a set of lectures he later delivered in Boston which were then published. Within the essay, Emerson divides nature into four usages: Commodity, Beauty, Language and Discipline. These distinctions define the ways by which humans use nature for their basic needs, their desire for delight, their communication with one another and their understanding of the world. Henry David Thoreau had read "Nature" as a senior at Harvard College and took it to heart. It eventually became an essential influence for Thoreau's later writings, including his seminal Walden. In fact, Thoreau wrote Walden while living in a self-built cabin on land that Emerson owned. Their longstanding acquaintance offered Thoreau great encouragement in pursuing his desire to be a published author. Emerson followed the success of Nature with a speech, "The American Scholar," which together with his previous lectures laid the foundation for transcendentalism and his literary career.
