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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature and Selected Essays

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.
ISBN: 9780142437629
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Page: 416
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2003
Format: Book
Publisher: PENGUIN
Language: English

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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 timeand 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 hisformative years.

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