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First Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 7" x 10 1/4." 168 pages, complete. Two former owners' signatures in ink and pencil on title page. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning, a few small marks and smudges, and the signatures on title page. Covers are clean and intact overall except for some darkening (most noticeable on spine), fraying to head and tail of spine, tiny speckles and rubbing, and moderate wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is the 1882 collection of Concord Lectures on Philosophy. It was part of a lyceum-like lecture series that was active from 1879-1888 at the Concord School of Philosophy, a philosophical school founded by Amos Bronson Alcott and other Transcendentalists. The 1882 lectures herein were collected and arranged by Raymond L. Bridgman, revised by several of the lecturers, and approved by the Concord School faculty. The 1882 lecture series was held over the course of twenty-four days. The lecturers for the 1882 series were Amos Bronson Alcott, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, W. T. Harris, H. K. Jones, George H. Howison, John Albee, James McCosh, Julia Ward Howe, C. A. Bartol, Joel Benton, Martha P. Lowe, Alexander Wilder, Ednah D. Cheney, R. A. Holland, C. E. Garman, R. G. Hazard, Elizabeth P. Peabody, John Watson, and George P. Lathrop. The titles of the lectures are as follows: "Salutatory," "Poem," "Socrates and the Pre-Socratic Philosophy," "Present Aspects of Philosophy in Germany," "Poetry," "Aristotle's 'De Anima,'" "Scottish Philosophy," "Idols and Iconoclasts," "Address," "The Nature of Knowledge," "Ion: a Monody," "Emerson as a Poet," "Reminiscences of Emerson," "Dialectic Unity in Emerson's Prose," "A Visit to Emerson," "Poem,--'Consolation,'" "Emerson as a Philosopher," "Reminiscences of Emerson," "Relation between Common Sense and Philosophy," "Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism," "Relation between Science and Philosophy," "Hebrew, Greek, Persian and Christian Oracles," "Relation of Philosophy to Agnosticism and Religion," "Christian Mysticism: Bonaventura and Meister Eckhart," "Dr. Hickok's Philosophy," "Man as Creative Power," "Relation between Experience and Philosophy," "Practical Utility Metaphysical Pursuits," "The Ascending Scale of Powers," "Nature," "Philosophy of the Bhagavad Ghita," "Genesis of the 'Maya,'" "Historical Epochs of Art," "Childhood,"" Readings from Thoreau's Manuscript," "Oracles of New England," "Individualism," "Philosophy of Religion and the Law of the Supernatural," "Schelling's Relations to Kant and Fichte," "Landscape Painting--Turner," "Schelling's Early Treatises, Transcendental Idealism and Philosophy of IDentity," "Alexandrian Platonism," "Community of the Faiths and Worships of Mankind," "Immortality," "Symbolism of Color," "Fichte's 'Destination of Man,'" "Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre," "Schelling's Later Philosophy and Transition to Hegel," "The Symposium," "Atomism," "Fichte's Wissenshchaftslehre--Practical," and "Valedictory." The first meeting of the Concord School was held at the study of the Alcotts' family home, Orchard House in 1879. Many of the lectures featured reminiscences by Transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, and past Transcendentalist writings such as those by Henry David Thoreau. The Concord School gave its last meeting in 1888 with the passing the Amos Bronson Alcott.
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