Pre-discussion Podcast 8: Emerson and Trascendentalism
Emerson burst onto the American intellectual scene by more or less inventing that American intellectual scene. Emerson collected around him a group of like-minded intellectuals who played out, in their own careers, this same search for American identity. His first publication, Nature, calls for a distinctly American way of looking at the enduring questions of human existence.American Literature Prediscussion Podcast #8: Emerson and Transcendentalism (about 18 min)
You might expect from the title "Nature" that Emerson is writing about sunsets and butterflies, but you get a better idea when you see that, right away, Emerson divides the universe into The Soul and everything else, and labels the everything else part "Nature." For Emerson, creation was the visible mind of God, and its purpose - the purpose of Nature - is to reveal to us truths about our souls.
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Alexi J. Swank on Pre-discussion Podcast 8: Emerson and Trascendentalism: Such a terrible pun...
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Valerie Susa on Pre-discussion Podcast 8: Emerson and Trascendentalism: The same yet different
Valerie Susa on Pre-discussion Podcast 8: Emerson and Trascendentalism: The same yet different
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Soul and Nature
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MichaelMcCullough/2010/09/the-souland-the-other-stuff.html
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MaryJaneStano/2010/09/different-life-same-idea.html
The same yet different
The same yet different
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BenjaminDavis/2010/09/analogies-in-nature.html
Analogies in Nature, is the Transcendentalism movement very different form the age of reason?
Emerson's views on the world
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/PatrickSchober/2010/10/stuff-i-overlooked-from-american-literature-1800-1915.html
Such a terrible pun...
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AlexiSwank/2010/10/enlightenmentdark-ageswow.html