Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans," and Walt Whitman called Emerson his "master".Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, "Nature". Following this work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar," in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence".
Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures, first, and then, revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, ''Essays: First Series'' (1841) and ''Essays: Second Series'' (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul,” "Circles,” "The Poet,” and "Experience". Together, with "Nature", these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but rather, by developing certain ideas, such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul." Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach, by rejecting views of God as separate from the world".
He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers, and poets that followed him. "In all my lectures," he wrote, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well-known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow Transcendentalist. Provided by Wikipedia
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[Complete works]. 9, Poems by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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[Complete works]. 10, Lectures by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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[Complete works]. 11, Miscellanies by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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Amitié, amour, art trois essais d'Emerson by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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Über Goethe und Shakespeare by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Englische Charakterzüge by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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Complete works by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol. I: Miscellanies. - Essays. Vol. II: Representative Men. - English Traits. - Conduct of Life.] by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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Essays von Ralph Waldo Emerson Übersetzt von Karl Federn und Thora Weigand. Mit einer einleitenden Studie über den Autor von Karl Federn. Drei Teile in einem Bande by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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Essays von Ralph Waldo Emerson by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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The conduct of life by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Essays by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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May-Day and other Pieces by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Society and Solitude Twelve Chapters. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Low's Copyright Cheap Editions of American Bocks.) by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Essais de philosophie Américaine Traduits en français et précédés d'une introduction par Em. Montégut by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Drei Essays Die Weltseele. Natur. Ausgleichungen by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Die Natur Ein Essay von Ralph Waldo Emerson. Aus dem Englischen von Adolph Holtermann by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Emerson sein Charakter aus seinen Werken by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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Essays von Ralph Waldo Emerson by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
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