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A collection of essays from the father of the American transcendentalism, including “Nature,” “Self-Reliance,” “Love,” and “Art.” Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous essay “Nature” declared that understanding nature was the key to understanding God and reality, and laid the groundwork for transcendentalism. His legacy of boldly questioning the doctrine of his day and connecting with nature will resonate with today’s readers in search...
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Daily inspiration from American philosopher and transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson
Featuring excerpts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays, poems, and lectures, Everyday Emerson offers 365 snippets of wisdom and insight from one of America’s greatest writers and philosophers. An astute observer of both nature and society, Emerson’s writing touches on themes of individuality, freedom, and human potential, all of it shot through with a profound...
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One of the Greatest Poems in American Literature
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was considered by many to be one of the most important American poets of all time. He had a profound influence on all those who came after him.
"Song of Myself", a portion of Whitman's monumental poetry collection "Leaves of Grass", is one of his most beloved poems. It was through this moving piece that Whitman first made himself known to the world. One of the most acclaimed...
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In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture of the time, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter. Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and...
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"The Hermeticism Philosophy Collection: Illustrated" presents a comprehensive anthology of key texts from the Hermetic tradition, accompanied by captivating illustrations. This collection includes some of the most influential works in Hermetic philosophy, including "The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean," "Corpus Hermeticum," "The Kybalion," "The Life and Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus," and "The Land of the Gods."
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Le Tao est le principe fondamental régissant le fonctionnement global de l'univers. Il est caractérisé par un équilibre constant entre les énergies yin et yang, sans quoi rien ne peut exister. La différence de chacun fonde la richesse de tous. « L'univers a le sens que chacun lui donne » mais sa compréhension ultime vient lorsque l'on se rend compte que rien ne peut être autrement que ce qui est « ici et maintenant ». Ce livre met donc...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson transformed America by writing in an utterly unique, personal, and insistently optimistic voice about matters that concern us to this day: our lives alone and with others, the true sources of identity, and the specifically American promise of freedom and equality for all. A principal voice of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embodies an independent American intellectual tradition rooted in deep moral convictions and the...
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"Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds to the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known as the father of Transcendentalism, rejected the puritan picture of human depravity and instead argued that people were inherently good. In these essays, titled 'Friendship', 'Love', 'Prudence', 'Heroism', 'Character' and 'Manners', Emerson claims that human connection and an...
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Alain Badiou's 1983—1984 lecture series on "the One" is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant-a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no "One": there is no fundamental unit of being; being is inherently multiple.
What is novel in Badiou's view of multiplicity is his reliance...
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Yirmiyahu Yovel (1935–2018) was professor emeritus of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include Kant and the Philosophy of History and Spinoza and Other Heretics (both Princeton).
A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophy
Perhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read,...
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A great deal has been said about meditation, about our collective conditioning and about philosophy, the love for truth. However, very little, if anything, has been seen to be done - not as in practiced but actually done! This book is just that. At the very least, it is a generally honest attempt to do so - and at best it might be a rare proof that it is in fact possible.A book by Tripute - A holistic collective concerned with a living not led by...
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Grand Canyon Ecstasy: The Psyche of Water and Stone is an exploration of the practical and philosophical aspects of solo hiking the Grand Canyon. Author Dennis L. Outwater adeptly contextualizes stunning descriptions of his ecstatic experiences of the Grand Canyon landscape through citation of both historic and modern-day philosophers and psychologists. In combining the author's personal anecdotes and revelations from hiking the Grand Canyon alone...
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This is the final volume of "Sleeping Moose Saga." by Atwood Cutting. Parts one and two followed two twentieth-century pioneers as they built their hand-hewn house and started a family. While living on their remote homestead they survived a couple of harsh winters, then took jobs in Fairbanks for two winters, returning each summer to continue working on their little farm at the end of the road.
Now the house is complete. Their beautiful home sits...
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IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
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From the publisher. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and sense of history -- social, economic, and...
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The First Comprehensive History of Transcendentalism
American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the America Civil War. Philip F. Gura masterfully traces their intellectual genealogy to transatlantic religious and philosophical ideas, illustrating how these...
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"When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons-of learning our own backyard, rewilding, loving nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedience-hold a secret that could help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate"--
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In Skipping Stones, Ryan writes about many things, long-dead saints, personal tragedy, everyday observations, and the nature of prayer. But what connects this collection is Ryan's desire for a transcendent experience. His vivid and story-driven poems create a secondary world for the reader to explore, worlds in which belief is possible and the divine looms large. For Ryan, "the Christian poet, and storyteller as well, is like the blind man whom Christ...
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A lifelong Emerson lover, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson's twelve essential teachings hold the answer to living an authentic and fulfilling life, one that is in harmony with our souls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a spiritual revolutionary whose profound vision of human potential came to define the American character. Known as America's original Stoic, he offered a radical message of optimism, authenticity,...