Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Early Lectures: 1838-1842
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674221529
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
In July 1839 Emerson wrote in his journal: "A lecture is a new literature...only then is the orator successful when he is himself agitated & is as much a hearer as any of the assembly. In that office you may & shall...yet see the electricity part from the cloud & shine from one part of heaven to the other." In this final volume of the early lectures we see the mature lecturer, directing himself toward that eloquence to which he aspired and finding a new vocation. With these lectures--ten from the series "Human Life," nine from the series "The Present Age," the "Address to the People of East Lexington," and two surviving lectures from the series "The Times"--Emerson produced virtually all his earned income from 1838-1842. The volume includes a biographical and critical introduction. A comprehensive index has been carefully prepared for the three volumes.
Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 3. 1838-1842. THE EARLY LECTURES OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON, VOLUME III
Author: Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume 3 1838-1842
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonEarly Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1838-1842
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson1838-1842
Author: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674484573
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
In the eight regular journals and three miscellaneous notebooks of this volume is the record of fusions. This period of his life closes, as it opened, with 'acquiescence and optimism.'
Early Lectures
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonIndividuality and Beyond
Author: Benedetta ZavattaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190929227
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Though few might think to connect the two figures, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an important influence on Friedrich Nietzsche. Specifically, Emerson played a fundamental role in shaping Nietzsche's philosophical ideas on individualism, perfectionism, and the pursuit of virtue, as well as his critiques of social conditioning, religious dogmatism, and anti-natural morality. With Individuality and Beyond, Benedetta Zavatta offers the first philosophical interpretation of Emerson's influence on Nietzsche based on a sound philological analysis of previously unpublished materials from Nietzsche's private library. Nietzsche's collection reveals numerous copies of Emerson's essays covered with annotations and marginalia as Nietzsche revisited these works throughout his life. Through close-reading, Zavatta casts a new light on the ways in which Emerson's work informed Nietzsche's defining ideas of self-creation, the relation between fate and free will, overcoming morality of customs and achieving moral autonomy, and the "transvaluation" of such values as compassion and altruism. Zavatta organizes these concepts into two main lines of thought: the first concerns the development of the individual personality, or the achievement of intellectual and moral autonomy and original self-expression. The second, on the contrary, concerns the overcoming of individuality and the need to transcend a limited view of the world by continually questioning one's own values and engaging with opposing perspectives. Ultimately, Zavatta clarifies the surprising contributions that Emerson made to 20th century European philosophy. She provides a fresh portrait of Emerson as an American thinker long stereotyped as a naïve idealist disinterested in the social issues of his day. Seen through the eyes of Nietzsche, his acute interpreter, Emerson becomes an incisive cultural critic, whose contributions underpin contemporary philosophy.