Bücher von Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson war der wohl wichtigste Essayist und Denker des amerikanischen 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Begründer des Transzendentalismus beeinflusste maßgeblich die Werke von Dichtern und Philosophen wie Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, William James und sogar Friedrich Nietzsche. Über Jahrzehnte führte Emerson Tagebücher, aus denen hier eine Auswahl in neuer Übersetzung und herausgegeben von Jürgen Brôcan vorgestellt wird. Emerson notiert Gedichtfragmente, Aphorismen, philosophische Betrachtungen, Erlebnisberichte und Essayentwürfe - ein unerschöpfliches Füllhorn von anregenden Gedanken über Natur, Geschichte, Demokratie, den Menschen und seine Möglichkeiten, sich zu bilden und den Anforderungen des Tages zu begegnen. Emerson erweist sich aber auch als scharfer Beobacher der politischen und intellektuellen Entwicklungen seiner Zeit: Die Tagebücher gewähren einen unmittelbaren Einblick in die turbulente Entstehung der damals noch jungen Vereinigten Staaten und bieten Erklärungen für viele noch heute vorhandene Merkmale der amerikanischen Mentalität: Materialismus, Pioniergeist, Expansionismus, rassistische Vorurteile. Emersons Tagebücher sind somit auch ein Buch über die Wurzeln des heutigen Amerikas.

Die 1836 erschienenen Überlegungen sind, neben den Schriften von Emersons Schüler Henry David Thoreau, bis heute der bedeutendste amerikanische Beitrag über das Verhältnis des Menschen zur Natur.

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"Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his own instincts and ideas. This essay is an analysis into the nature of the “aboriginal self on which a universal reliance may be grounded.” Emerson emphasizes the importance of individualism and its effect on an individual's satisfaction in life.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson will undoubtedly be forever remembered as a quintessentially American author; his prose works rank among the most excellent from any century of American literature. Unfortunately, due ironically to the excellence and originality of his transcendental philosophy, his poetry is often forgotten. This volume of his collected poems seeks to rectify that. This is Volume 1 of the Great American Poets Series.