Books by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For Emerson, keeping a journal functioned in many different ways. The journals were, first of all, a laboratory for all of his mature writing, a place where he would try out things. They were also a commonplace book. Last but not least, they were a window into an intimate side of Emerson that he would never, ever expose in his published writings.” Read more...
The best books on Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Marcus, Journalist
“This book includes all of Emerson’s work, basically. If you buy this, you have it all in the palm of your hand, starting with Nature and going on for another 1,250 pages or so.” Read more...
The best books on Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Marcus, Journalist
“It’s a bit of an outlier because it’s not by Emerson at all, but I find it tremendously moving. It’s a book you have to read to understand him, even though there’s hardly a word by him in it.” Read more...
The best books on Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Marcus, Journalist
“We forget that that is basically what philosophy is: it is teaching. That’s what you really get out of Emerson’s essays.” Read more...
The best books on American Philosophy
John Kaag, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Ralph Waldo Emerson were recommended
The best books on American Philosophy, recommended by John Kaag
Should we be moral? Should we love? John Kaag, philosopher and author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are, puzzles how five American Pragmatist and Transcendentalist philosophers quarrel with these searching questions and other timeless subjects, from faith and belief to human rights.
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire
by Robert D Richardson -
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Emerson: Essays and Lectures
by Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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Emerson in His Journals
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Joel Porte (editor) -
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Emerson in His Own Time
Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson (editors) -
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One First Love
by Ellen Louisa Tucker & Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best books on Ralph Waldo Emerson, recommended by James Marcus
The best books on Ralph Waldo Emerson, recommended by James Marcus
Known to many of us as the American Transcendentalist champion of individualism and self-reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson is a much more soulful and sorrowful, brilliant but deeply contradictory thinker than we often give him credit for, says James Marcus, as he recommends the best books by – or about – Emerson.
