The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2University of Missouri Press, 1990 - Authors, American "Published here for the first time are seven of Emerson's topical notebooks, which served as a source for his lectures, essays, and books of the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. Concerned primarily with nature, art, philosophy, American culture, and his comtemporaries, the notebooks presented in this first of a three-volume editions afford fascinating insight into Emerson's creative practices. They will offer new perspectives for future readings of his completed works. The editors provide faithful transcriptions of the notebooks using the highest standards of textual practice. Their detailed annotations describe and comment on erased or revised passages, translate Greek and Latin quotations, and identify books and articles referred to in the texts of the notebooks. References to similar passages in Emerson's journals, lectures, and published works are also provided in the annotations. Publication of these notebooks will inable scholars to trace ideas that have gone unnoticed previously. The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1, offers valuable insight into the art and philosophy of one of America's foremost thinkers. These volumes will be an important addition to any personal or institutional library of nine-teenth-century American literature."--Publishers website. |
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... philosophy or commentary on it is philosophy itself and the conviction , rooted in the example of Nature as the supereminent trope , that metaphysics and poetics are one and the same enterprise , in PH Emerson treats Plato and the ...
... philosophy or commentary on it is philosophy itself and the conviction , rooted in the example of Nature as the supereminent trope , that metaphysics and poetics are one and the same enterprise , in PH Emerson treats Plato and the ...
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... philosophers , but also poets . Here , Emerson treats historians of philosophy as philosophers , finding Sampson Reed's Observations on the Growth of the Mind ( 1825 ) , James Hutchison Stirling's The Secret of Hegel ( 1865 ) , and ...
... philosophers , but also poets . Here , Emerson treats historians of philosophy as philosophers , finding Sampson Reed's Observations on the Growth of the Mind ( 1825 ) , James Hutchison Stirling's The Secret of Hegel ( 1865 ) , and ...
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... Philosophy . C [ harles ] K [ ing ] N [ ewcomb ] 1342 Coates St R. W. Emerson " Philosophy is the doctrine & discipline of ideas . " Coleridge 1869 . " To construct a philosophy is nothing more than to give the best attention to the ...
... Philosophy . C [ harles ] K [ ing ] N [ ewcomb ] 1342 Coates St R. W. Emerson " Philosophy is the doctrine & discipline of ideas . " Coleridge 1869 . " To construct a philosophy is nothing more than to give the best attention to the ...
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