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Life As Dance: The Lost Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sripad Jagannatha Dasa
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Sripad Jagannatha Dasa
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August 2022
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay 'Nature'. Following this work, he gave a speech entitled 'The American Scholar' in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's 'intellectual Declaration of Independence.'
Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, represent the core of his thinking. They include the wellknown essays 'SelfReliance', 'The OverSoul', 'Circles', 'The Poet', and 'Experience.' Together with 'Nature', these essays made the decade from the mid1830s to the mid1840s Emerson's most fertile period. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's 'nature' was more philosophical than naturalistic: 'Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.' Emerson is one of several figures who 'took a more pantheist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world.'
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