Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, the famed philosopher unburdened his young country of Europe’s traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/2009
Series: Penguin Books: Great Ideas
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.17lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780141042480
Language: English
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