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Genre/Form: | Quelle History |
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Named Person: | Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Kenneth Sacks |
ISBN: | 0521883695 9780521883696 0521710022 9780521710022 |
OCLC Number: | 212858707 |
Description: | xxxvi, 237 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Selections from Nature -- Introduction -- Language -- Journal entries: 1837 -- The American scholar -- The divinity school address -- Uriel -- Concord hymn -- Letter to Martin Van Buren, President of the United States -- Self-reliance -- Compensation -- Concerning Brook farm -- Man the reformer -- Politics -- Journal entries: 1840 and 1844 -- Ode: inscribed to W.H. Channing -- Address to the citizens of Concord -- Webster and 1854 -- Journal entry: 1851 -- Woman. A lecture read before the woman's rights convention, September 20, 1855 -- Napoleon: or the man of the world from Representative Men -- Speech at a meeting for the relief of the family of John Brown -- John Brown. Speech at Salem -- Fate -- Power -- Journal entry: 1862. |
Series Title: | Cambridge texts in the history of political thought. |
Other Titles: | Emerson : |
Responsibility: | Emerson ; edited by Kenneth S. Sacks. |
Abstract:
Ralph Waldo Emerson is the central figure in American political thought. This selection of his major writings for the series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought highlights not only Emerson's practical political involvement in issues like abolitionism, but also examines the philosophical basis of his political thinking.
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