The American Scholar (1838) by

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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-11-12

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781540369970

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature." Following this groundbreaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence."

The Best American Essays 2014

The Best American Essays 2014 PDF

Author: Robert Atwan

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0544309901

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Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in 2014, selected from American periodicals.

The American Scholar

The American Scholar PDF

Author: Norman Foerster

Publisher:

Published: 2013-01-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781469609577

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Foerster has here formulated his ideas concerning the relation of humanism to graduate study and scholarship. In a day when all educational ideals and methods are up for reexamination and appraisal, this book is particularly timely, and no one interested in such questions can afford to be ignorant of this carefully considered statement by one of the leading thinkers of his day. Originally published in 1929. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The American Scholar

The American Scholar PDF

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-07

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781528718561

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On August 31, 1837 at the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Emerson first gave his speech "The American Scholar" in front of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. Within it, he employs Transcendentalist and Romantic ideas in an attempt to explain an American scholar's relationship to nature. A fascinating speech that will appeal...

The American Scholar

The American Scholar PDF

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: BompaCrazy.com

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781646795499

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"The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future..." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" (1837) The American Scholar (1837), is an address delivered by Ralph Waldo Emerson to the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Emerson's writing was focused on providing a philosophical framework for escaping European culture and building a new, distinctly American identity. This essay is a declaration of independence of the United States intellectual community from Europe's. It also expresses the author's belief that the American scholar could only achieve a higher state of mind by rejecting old ideas and by thinking for himself, to become "Man Thinking" rather than "a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking," "the sluggard intellect of this continent."

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