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Annotated Emerson
出版社： Harvard University Press
書林書號：
30206236
作者：
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
定價：
1225
會員價：
$1164
ISBN：
9780674049239
出版年份：
2012
裝訂：
精裝
總頁數：
0
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愛默生作品註釋

A brilliant essayist and a master of the aphorism (“Our moods do not believe in each other”; “Money often costs too much”), Emerson has inspired countless writers. He challenged Americans to shut their ears against Europe’s “courtly muses” and to forge a new, distinctly American cultural identity. But he remains one of America’s least understood writers. And, by his own admission, he spawned neither school nor follower (he valued independent thought too much). Now, in this annotated selection of Emerson’s writings, David Mikics instructs the reader in a larger appreciation of Emerson’s essential works and the remarkable thinker who produced them.

Full of color illustrations and rich in archival photographs, this volume offers much for the specialist and general reader. In his running commentaries on Emerson’s essays, addresses, and poems, Mikics illuminates contexts, allusions, and language likely to cause difficulty to modern readers. He quotes extensively from Emerson’s Journal to shed light on particular passages or lines and examines Emerson the essayist, poet, itinerant lecturer, and political activist. Finally, in his Foreword, Phillip Lopate makes the case for Emerson as a spectacular truth teller—a model of intellectual labor and anti-dogmatic sanity.

Anyone who values Emerson will want to own this edition. Those wishing to discover, or to reacquaint themselves with, Emerson’s writings but who have not known where or how to begin will not find a better starting place or more reliable guide than The Annotated Emerson.
拉爾夫·沃爾多·愛默生（Ralph Waldo Emerson，1803年5月25日－1882年4月27日），生於波士頓，美國思想家、文學家。
愛默生是美國文化精神的代表人物，美國總統林肯稱他為「美國的孔子」、「美國文明之父」。以愛默生思想為代表的超驗主義是美國思想史上一次重要的思想解放運動，被稱為「美國文藝復興」。超驗主義強調人與上帝間的直接交流和人性中的神性，具有強烈的批判精神。

There are few people as quoted and quotable as Ralph Waldo Emerson, founder of the transcendental movement and author of classic essays as Self-Reliance, Nature, and The American Scholar. Emerson began his career as a Unitarian minister and later put those oratory skills to move us toward a better society. More remains written on him than by him.
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