Godina izdanja: 1995
ISBN: 978-0-520-20689-2
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Robert D. Richardson Jr.: EMERSON THE MIND ON FIRE

Mek povez, 23cm, 671strana, izdavač: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS - Los Angeles

Ралф Волдо Емерсон, био је амерички филозоф, есејиста и песник. По својим идејама и утицају средишња је личност америчког интелектуалног живота у 19. веку. Његово предавање под насловом Амерички учењак названо је „интелектуалном Декларацијом независности“. Уређивао је лист The Deal. Википедија

About the Book

Recipient of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, including correspondence among the Emerson brothers, Richardson gives us a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man.

These pages present a young suitor, a grief-stricken widower, an affectionate father, and a man with an abiding genius for friendship. The great spokesman for individualism and self-reliance turns out to have been a good neighbor, an activist citizen, a loyal brother. Here is an Emerson who knew how to laugh, who was self-doubting as well as self-reliant, and who became the greatest intellectual adventurer of his age.

Richardson has, as much as possible, let Emerson speak for himself through his published works, his many journals and notebooks, his letters, his reported conversations. This is not merely a study of Emerson`s writing and his influence on others; it is Emerson`s life as he experienced it. We see the failed minister, the struggling writer, the political reformer, the poetic liberator.