At some point in many of his essays and addresses, Emerson enunciates, or at least refers to, a great vision of unity. How can the vision of succession and the vision of unity be reconciled? Emerson never comes to a clear or final answer. He suggests this, for example, in the many places where he speaks of waking up out of our dreams or nightmares. Emerson routinely invites charges of inconsistency. He means to be irresponsible to all that holds him back from his self-development.
An event hovering over the essay, but not disclosed until its third paragraph, is the death of his five-year old son Waldo. All in all, the earlier work expresses a sunnier hope for human possibilities, the sense that Emerson and his contemporaries were poised for a great step forward and upward; and the later work, still hopeful and assured, operates under a weight or burden, a stronger sense of the dumb resistance of the world. Emerson read widely, and gave credit in his essays to the scores of writers from whom he learned.
He kept lists of literary, philosophical, and religious thinkers in his journals and worked at categorizing them. Emerson read avidly in Indian, especially Hindu, philosophy, and in Confucianism.
Other writers whom Emerson often mentions are Anaxagoras, St. Other Emersonian ideas-about transition, the ideal in the commonplace, and the power of human will permeate the writings of such classical American pragmatists as William James and John Dewey. The friend can be a person but it may also be a text.
Williams and Co. Some Questions about Emerson 3. Mill, and Thomas Carlyle. American essayist, poet and practical philosopher, Henry David Thoreau was a New England Transcendentalist and author of the book 'Walden.
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Olivia Rodrigo —. Megan Thee Stallion —. Always suspicious of reform and reformers, Emerson was yet an advocate of reform causes. His essays are bound together neither by their stated theme nor the progression of argument, but instead by the systematic coherence of his thought alone. Another feature of his rhetorical style involves exploring the contrary poles of a particular idea, similar to a poetic antithesis.
As a philosopher-poet, Emerson employs a highly figurative style, while his poetry is remarkable as a poetry of ideas. In the wide-ranging style of his essays, he returns to the subject of nature, suggesting that nature is itself a repetition of a very few laws, and thus implying that history repeats itself consistently with a few recognizable situations.
For everything that is given, something is taken. Nevertheless, Emerson argued that if our promptings are bad they come from our inmost being.
If we are made thus we have little choice in any case but to be what we are. While Emerson does not accept in principle social progress as such, his philosophy emphasizes the progress of spirit, particularly when understood as development. It is also an essay written out of the devastating grief that struck the Emerson household after the death of their five-year-old son, Waldo. Unity, or Identity; and, 2.
The English poet possessed the rare capacity of greatness in that he allowed the spirit of his age to achieve representation through him. English Traits was published in but represented almost a decade of reflections on an invited lecture tour Emerson made in to Great Britain. English Traits contains an advanced understanding of race, namely, that the differences among the members of a race are greater than the differences between races, but in general introduces few new ideas.
Varying a biblical proverb to his own thought, Emerson argues that what we seek we will find because it is our fate to seek what is our own. On the subject of politics, Emerson consistently posited a faith in balance, the tendencies toward chaos and order, change and conservation always correcting each other.
In his early work, Emerson emphasized the operation of nature through the individual man. The Conduct of Life uncovers the same consideration only now understood in terms of work or vocation.
Emerson remains the major American philosopher of the nineteenth century and in some respects the central figure of American thought since the colonial period. Perhaps due to his highly quotable style, Emerson wields a celebrity unknown to subsequent American philosophers. Search more than 3, biographies of contemporary and classic poets.
After studying at Harvard and teaching for a brief time, Emerson entered the ministry. He was appointed to the Old Second Church in his native city, but soon became an unwilling preacher. Unable in conscience to administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper after the death of his nineteen-year-old wife of tuberculosis, Emerson resigned his pastorate in Carlyle, the Scottish-born English writer, was famous for his explosive attacks on hypocrisy and materialism, his distrust of democracy, and his highly romantic belief in the power of the individual.
Emerson's friendship with Carlyle was both lasting and significant; the insights of the British thinker helped Emerson formulate his own philosophy. On his return to New England, Emerson became known for challenging traditional thought. In , he married his second wife, Lydia Jackson, and settled in Concord, Massachusetts.
Known in the local literary circle as "The Sage of Concord," Emerson became the chief spokesman for Transcendentalism, the American philosophic and literary movement. Centered in New England during the 19th century, Transcendentalism was a reaction against scientific rationalism.
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