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Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism.
Larzer Ziff's introduction to this collection of fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provides the important backdrop to the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years.
Contents
Introduction 7
Suggestions for Further Reading 29
A Note on the Text 31Essays
Nature 1836 35
The American Scholar 1837 83
An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge 1838 107
Man the Reformer 1841 129
History (Essays, First Series) 1841 149
Self-Reliance (Essays, First Series) 1841 175
The Over-Soul (Essays, First Series) 1841 205
Circles (Essays, First Series) 1841 225
The Transcendentalist 1842 239
The Poet (Essays, Second Series) 1844 259
Experience (Essays, Second Series) 1844 285
Montaigne; Or, the Skeptic (Representative Men) 1850 313
Napoleon; Or, the Man of the World (Representative Men) 1850 337
Fate (The Conduct of Life) 1860 361
Thoreau 1862 393
