Nature and Selected Essays

Nature and Selected Essays - Penguin Classics

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780142437629
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date:
DEWEY: 814.3
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 415
Weight: 370g
Height: 196mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 18mm