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Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history.

Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps America’s most famous philosopher, did not wish to be referred to as a transcendentalist, he is nevertheless considered the founder of this major movement of nineteenth-century American thought. Emerson was influenced by a liberal religious training; theological study; personal contact with the Romanticists Coleridge, Carlyle, and Wordsworth; and a strong indigenous sense of individualism and self-reliance. Emerson’s best work was done between 1836 and 1860, a period which includes his famous Essays.

These essays contain his most important writing and radiate with sensitivity and wonder. Here Emerson’s prose shows him to be both a vigorous thinker and a profound mystic, a man of exquisite feeling combined with stern moral fiber. His strong love of retirement from life, contemplation of the sublime and the mystic, his self-reliance, and his strong character left their stamp not only on such writers as Thoreau, Whitman, and Emily Dickinson but also on the American character at large.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied at Harvard Divinity School and became an ordained minister. He led the transcendentalist movement in America in the mid-nineteenth century. He is perhaps most well known for his publications Essays and Nature.

Public Domain (P)2001 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classics Philosophy Social Sciences World Nonfiction
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The essays are timeless and I enjoy listening to them and pondering the content. It does bother me that the chapters are not labelled, it is nice to be able to choose the essay that one would. like to listen to. I took the liberty and will share it with you.
Ralf Waldo Emerson- Essays audiobook chapters
1- History
2- Self Reliance
3- Compensation
4-Spiritual Laws
5-Love
6-Friendship
7-Prudence
8-Heroisms
9-The Over-Soul
10-Circles
11-Intellect
12-Art
The second series
13/1The Poet
14/2-Experience
15/3-Character
16/4-Manners
17/5-Gifts
18/6-Nature
19/7-Politics
20/8-Nominalist and Realist.

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