The Essential Transcendentalists

Author : Richard G. Geldard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101144114
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Transcendentalists written by Richard G. Geldard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest abounds in the work of the Transcendentalists, such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott. Each year, tens of thousands of readers rediscover Transcendental thought in books and articles, and in visits to historic sites, such as Walden Pond. But few appreciate the truly mystical and contemplative qualities of the Transcendentalists, and the spiritual movements and figures they have since inspired. As Richard G. Geldard-one of today's leading scholars of Emerson-illustrates in The Essential Transcendentalists, Transcendentalism adds up to a school of practical spiritual philosophy that aims to guide the individual toward inner development, much like that of Stoicism in Western antiquity. This current of New England mysticism has influenced modern-day luminaries as diverse as essayist Annie Dillard and Ernest Holmes, founder of the worldwide Religious Science movement. Through revealing commentary, historical overview, and selections from classic works, The Essential Transcendentalists provides a distinctive and heretofore neglected examination of the spiritual breadth and depth of "Yankee mysticism."

Author : Richard G. Geldard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 158542434X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Transcendentalists written by Richard G. Geldard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest abounds in the work of the Transcendentalists, such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott. Each year, tens of thousands of readers rediscover Transcendental thought in books and articles, and in visits to historic sites, such as Walden Pond. But few appreciate the truly mystical and contemplative qualities of the Transcendentalists, and the spiritual movements and figures they have since inspired. As Richard G. Geldard-one of today's leading scholars of Emerson-illustrates in The Essential Transcendentalists, Transcendentalism adds up to a school of practical spiritual philosophy that aims to guide the individual toward inner development, much like that of Stoicism in Western antiquity. This current of New England mysticism has influenced modern-day luminaries as diverse as essayist Annie Dillard and Ernest Holmes, founder of the worldwide Religious Science movement. Through revealing commentary, historical overview, and selections from classic works, The Essential Transcendentalists provides a distinctive and heretofore neglected examination of the spiritual breadth and depth of "Yankee mysticism."

Author : Barbara L. Packer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820329581
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transcendentalists written by Barbara L. Packer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara L. Packer's long essay "The Transcendentalists" is widely acknowledged by scholars of nineteenth-century American literary history as the best-written, most comprehensive treatment to date of Transcendentalism. Previously existing only as part of a volume in the magisterial Cambridge History of American Literature, it will now be available for the first time in a stand-alone edition. Packer presents Transcendentalism as a living movement, evolving out of such origins as New England Unitarianism and finding early inspiration in European Romanticism. Transcendentalism changed religious beliefs, philosophical ideas, literary styles, and political allegiances. In addition, it was a social movement whose members collaborated on projects and formed close personal ties. Transcendentalism contains vigorous thought and expression throughout, says Packer; only a study of the entire movement can explain its continuing sway over American thought. Through fresh readings of both the essential Transcendentalist texts and the best current scholarship, Packer conveys the movement's genuine expectations that its radical spirituality not only would lead to personal perfection but also would inspire solutions to such national problems as slavery and disfranchisement. Here is Transcendentalism in whole, with Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller restored to their place alongside such contemporaries as Bronson Alcott, George Ripley, Jones Very, Theodore Parker, James Freeman Clarke, Orestes Brownson, and Frederick Henry Hedge.

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Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
ISBN 13 : 1603890165
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcendentalism: Essential Essays of Emerson and Thoreau: Literary Touchstone Classic written by and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081297509X
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Transcendentalists written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery. Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive anthology contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their fellow visionaries. There are also reflections on the movement by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This remarkable volume introduces the radical innovations of a brilliant group of thinkers whose impact on religious thought, social reform, philosophy, and literature continues to reverberate in the twenty-first century.

Author : Perry Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674903333
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transcendentalists written by Perry Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1950 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy explained in terms of selections from the writings of the chief adherents.

Author : Robert A. Gross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374711887
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transcendentalists and Their World written by Robert A. Gross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 best books of 2021 One of Air Mail's 10 best books of 2021 Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize In the year of the nation’s bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty years later, in this highly anticipated work, Gross returns to Concord and explores the meaning of an equally crucial moment in the American story: the rise of Transcendentalism. The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively in his classic Walden. But Concord from the 1820s through the 1840s was no pastoral place fit for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived through a transformative epoch of American life. A place of two thousand–plus souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, whose small, ordered society founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen was dramatically unsettled through the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy and tightly integrated into the wider world. These changes challenged a world of inherited institutions and involuntary associations with a new premium on autonomy and choice. They exposed people to cosmopolitan currents of thought and endowed them with unparalleled opportunities. They fostered uncertainties, raised new hopes, stirred dreams of perfection, and created an audience for new ideas of individual freedom and democratic equality deeply resonant today. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a community and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the depths of the universe for spiritual truths and surveyed the rapidly changing contours of their own neighborhoods. It shows us familiar figures in American literature alongside their neighbors at every level of the social order, and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community of the nineteenth century has been recovered so richly and with so acute an awareness of its place in the larger American story.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721824953
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transcendentalist written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings (Modern Library Classics) Paperback - January 10, 2006 by Ralph Waldo Emerson Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery. Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive anthology contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their fellow visionaries. There are also reflections on the movement by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This remarkable volume introduces the radical innovations of a brilliant group of thinkers whose impact on religious thought, social reform, philosophy, and literature continues to reverberate in the twenty-first century. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcendentalists Collection (Illustrated) written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcendentalists Collection includes four essential works of Emerson and Thoreau: Walden by Henry David Thoreau Walking by Henry David Thoreau Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author : Tiffany K. Wayne
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109164
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism written by Tiffany K. Wayne and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a reference guide to transcendentalism, with articles on significant works, writers, concepts and more.