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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) is known best in the twenty-first century as a literary innovator and early architect of American intellectual culture, but his writings still offer spiritual sustenance to the thoughtful reader. The Spiritual Emerson, originally published on the two hundredth anniversary of the writer's birth, brings together the writings that articulate Emerson's spiritual vision and promise the greatest relevance to today's reader.

В данном издании представлены эссе видного американского философа Ральфа Уолдо Эмерсона (1803–1882) — «Опыты», «Представители человечества» и некоторые фрагменты из «Образа жизни». Р. У. Эмерсон по праву считается главой философско-литературного движения трансцендентализма и одним из самых известных мыслителей за всю историю США. Он был другом и наставником самобытного писателя и философа Генри Дэвида Торо (1817–1962). Основные идеи, которые развивал Р. У. Эмерсон в своем творчестве и которые нашли отражение в данном сборнике — это социальное равенство и равенство людей пред Богом, непрерывное духовное совершенствование, близость к природе, очищение от вульгарно-материальных интересов. Также затронуты такие вопросы, как роль личности в истории и влияние выдающихся представителей человечества на культуру и образ жизни других людей.

Доверие к себе, то есть доверие своим непосредственным интуитивным восприятиям, позволяет человеку полностью реализовать заложенный в нём потенциал («божественную идею»).

This first Library of America volume of Emerson’s writing covers the most productive period of his life, 1832–1860. Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called “the great and crescive self,” he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes.

Here are the indispensable and most renowned works, including “The American Scholar” (“our intellectual Declaration of Independence,” as Oliver Wendell Holmes called it), “The Divinity School Address,” considered atheistic by many of his listeners, the summons to “Self-Reliance,” along with the more embattled realizations of “Circles” and, especially, “Experience.” Here, too, are his wide-ranging portraits of Montaigne, Shakespeare, and other “representative men,” and his astute observations on the habits, lives, and prospects of the English and American people.

This volume includes Emerson’s well-known Nature; Addresses, and Lectures (1849), his Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), plus Representative Men (1850), English Traits (1856), and his later book of essays, The Conduct of Life (1860). These are the works that established Emerson’s colossal reputation in America and found him admirers abroad as diverse as Carlyle, Nietzsche, and Proust.

Emerson’s enduring power is apparent everywhere in American literature: in those, like Whitman and some of the major twentieth-century poets, who seek to corroborate his vision, and among those, like Hawthorne and Melville, who questioned, qualified, and struggled with it. Emerson’s vision reverberates also in the tradition of American philosophy, notably in the writings of William James and John Dewey, in the works of his European admirers, such as Nietzsche, and in the avant-garde theorists of our own day who write on the nature and function of language. The reasons for Emerson’s durability will be obvious to any reader who follows the exhilarating, exploratory movements of his mind in this uniquely full gathering of his work.

Not merely another selection of his essays, this volume includes all his major books in their rich entirety. No other volume conveys so comprehensively the exhilaration and exploratory energy of perhaps America’s greatest writer.

Эмерсон Ральф Уолдо (1803 – 1882) – американский философ, публицист и поэт. В настоящее издание вошли лучшие из его морально-философских эссе.
Торо Генри Дэвид (1817 – 1862) – американский писатель и общественный деятель. Книга "Уолден, или Жизнь в лесу" (1854) – основное произведение Торо, – свидетельство острого непринятия писателем современной действительности.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well.

Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of one’s own experience. From the embattled farmers who “fired the shot heard round the world” in the stirring “Concord Hymn,” to the flower in “The Rhodora,” whose existence demonstrates “that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being,” Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in the human and in nature.

Combining intensity of feeling with his famous idealism, Emerson’s poems reveal a moving, more intimate side of the man revered as the Sage of Concord.

Introduction by Mary Oliver
Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau

The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true “American Scholar.” As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized “the splendid labyrinth of one’s own perceptions.” More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson’s essays “the most important work done in prose.”

Book DescriptionThe essays in this book, first published in 1860, were developed from a series of lectures on "The Conduct of Life" delivered by Emerson during the early 1850s. The published essays show Emerson's interest in many practical

This collection of the first series of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson collects some of the classic thoughts of this important American and leader of the Transcendentalist movement. Contained in this volume are the following essays: History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, and Art.

Издание выпущено в 1902 году редакцией "Нового Журнала Иностранной Литературы". С критическим очерком и портретом Эмерсона. Под новодельным переплетом сохранены оригинальные мягкие обложки. Сохранность раритета очень хорошая. В первый том избранных произведений вошли "Трактат о природе" и "Опыты", второй том содержит отдельные статьи и послесловие переводчика.

The six essays and one address included in this volume, offer a representative sampling of Ralph Waldo Emerson's views outlining moral idealism as well as a hint of the later scepticism that colored his thought.

Произведение американского писателя и философа-идеалиста Р.У.Эмерсона объединяет ряд очерков философско-морализующего характера, в которых главным является проповедь самоусовершенствования человеческой личности.

A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets.

The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women and slaves, and a poet of great sensitivity. As explored in this volume, Emersonian thought is a unique blend of belief in individual freedom and in humility before the power of nature. “I become a transparent eyeball,” Emerson wrote in Nature, “I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.” Written over a century ago, this passage is a striking example of the passion and originality of Emerson’s ideas, which continue to serve as a spiritual center and an ideological base for modern thought.

In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic. Emerson offers timeless meditations on the value of individual greatness, reconnecting readers with the everyday virtues of his “Representative Men”: Plato, in whose writings are contained “the culture of nations”; Emanuel Swedenborg, a “rich discoverer” who strove to unite the scientific and spiritual planes; Michel de Montaigne, “the frankest and honestest of all writers”; William Shakespeare, who “wrote the text of modern life”; Napoleon Bonaparte, who had the “virtues and vices” of common men writ large; and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who “in conversation, in calamity…finds new materials.”

Carefully selected passages from 55 years of journal entries: thoughts, religious sentiments, impressions of books, authors, contemporaries, much more. Splendid, revealing record of Emerson's personal beliefs, as well as a social and historical record of his age. "Beyond all doubt this . . . volume will extend the sphere of Emerson's influence." ? Springfield Republican. Biographical notes.

Book DescriptionEdited with an Introduction by Larzer Ziff.

In Essays: Second Series (1844) by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author brought together a series of writings that laid out many of the fundamental concepts of the philosophical system that has come to be known as Transcendentalism. This book contains, "The Poet," "Experience," "Character," "Manners," "Gifts, "Nature," "Politics," "Nominalist and Realist," and "New England Reformers." These are also available from Cosimo Classics individually.