Representative Men - Softcover

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089875500X ISBN 13: 9780898755008

Verlag: University Press of the Pacific, 2001

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Repräsentative Men enthält sieben Vorträge über große Männer – Plato, Schwedenborg, Montaige, Shakespeare, Napoleon und Goethe. Es ist natürlich, an große Männer zu glauben. Wenn sich die Gefährten unserer Kindheit als Helden entscheiden sollten, und ihr Zustand königlich sein sollten, wäre es uns nicht überraschen. Alle Mythologie eröffnet sich mit Demigoden, und die Umstände sind hoch und poetisch, das heißt, ihr Genie ist von größter Bedeutung. In den Legenden der Gautama aßen die ersten Männer die Erde und fanden sie herrlich süß. Emerson ist einer der einflussreichsten Denker der amerikanischen Geschichte. Sein Transcendentalismus predigte eine enge Kommunion mit Mensch und Natur und ist eine der großen lebensbefriedigenden Philosophien jeden Alters. Gesellschaft und Einsamkeit bietet eine bedeutende Bezeichnung von Emersons Gedanken. Als einer der Architekten der transcendentalistischen Bewegung begann Emerson eine Philosophie, die das Individuelle, unabhängige Gedanken hervorhebte, und "das herrliche Labyrinth der eigenen Wahrnehmungen wertet". Mehr als jeder Schriftsteller seiner Zeit geschmiedete er einen Stil, der sich von seinen europäischen Vorgängern unterscheidet, und verkörperte und definierte, was er als Amerikaner sein sollte. Matthew Arnold nannte Emerson's Essays "die wichtigste Arbeit in der Prose". "Ich war köcheln, köcheln, köcheln. Emerson brachte mich zum Kochen. -- Walt Whitman

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.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 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."[6]He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement,[7] and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist.Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882)[5] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.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."[6]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",[7] "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet", and "Experience." Together with "Nature",[8] 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 developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything.

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• Verlag: University Press of the Pacific
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 089875500X
• ISBN 13: 9780898755008
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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