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Books by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Reliance and Hit Essays
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Essays and Poems
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Self-Reliance: An Extract from Cool Essays, Prime Series
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Nature
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The Indispensable Writings honor Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature forward Selected Essays
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Selected Essays
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The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation
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The Light Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson The Best 5 Books to Read

Ralph Waldo Emerson ( - ) was a philosopher and essayist perhaps best known for spearheading American Transcendentalism, a philosophical movement that emphasizes the power of individualism, self-reliance, and the natural world.

One of the key hallmarks of the Transcendentalist movement, which notably included Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau (see our reading list of Thoreau’s best books here), is its celebration of the supremacy — even divinity — of nature.

Divinity is not locked in a distant heaven, say transcendentalists; it is accessible right here in the company of the natural world.

We are thus at our best not when we conform to voices outside ourselves, but when we follow the voice within — the glimmering insight, the “immense intelligence” of our natural intuition and instincts.

Society on this view is seen as a corrupting force — it takes us away from our natural wisdom.

As unique individuals, we should not conform to generic belief systems or conventions, Emerson writes, but instead “enjoy an original relation to the universe.”

Emerson offers the beginnings of a path for how we might resist the pressures of society in his famous essay, Self-Reliance (read my Self-Reliance summary and analysis

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher (–)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Born	()May 25, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	April 27, () (aged&#;78) Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma&#;mater	Harvard University
Spouse(s)	Ellen Louisa Tucker &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; ^[1]
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	American philosophy
School	Transcendentalism
Institutions	Harvard College
Main interests	Individualism, nature, divinity, cultural criticism
Notable ideas	Self-reliance, transparent eyeball, double consciousness, stream of thought
Religion	Christianity
Church	Unitarianism
Ordained	11 January
Laicized

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, &#;&#; April 27, ),^[2] who went by his middle name Waldo,^[3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the midth century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted