The Conduct of Life - Couverture souple

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1523610883 ISBN 13 : 9781523610884

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882), born in Boston, son of a Unitarian minister who died when Ralph was eight, leaving him and four other brothers (one mentally retarded) to the care of their mother and aunt. He was educated at Harvard, studied theology and became a pastor in Boston, but resigned his charge. He departed in 1832 for Europe, and in 1833 visited England, when he met Coleridge, Wordsworth and Carlyle, who became a lifelong friend and correspondent. On his return to America, Emerson embarked on a career as lecturer, evolving the new quasi-religious concept of Transcendentalism, which found written expression in his essay “Nature” (1836): “The world is the mind precipitated”. This form of mystic idealism and reverence for nature was immensely influential in American life and thought.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) 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. He gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. He wrote on a number of subjects. He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that have followed him. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." Starting in 1867, his health began declining; he wrote much less in his journals. Beginning as early as the summer of 1871 or in the spring of 1872, he started having memory problems and suffered from aphasia. By the end of the decade, he forgot his own name at times and, when anyone asked how he felt, he responded, "Quite well; I have lost my mental faculties, but am perfectly well". On April 21, 1882, he was found to be suffering from pneumonia. He died on April 27, 1882 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts.