Freedom and Fate
An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
2nd Edition
Published on 29. January 1953
Book
Hardback
214 pages
978-1-5128-2018-8 (ISBN)
Description
Stephen Whicher's Freedom and Fate begins with a tribute to Ralph Rusk's monumental biography The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, acknowledging its supremacy as a factual telling of Emerson's life that cannot be surpassed. Whicher's book aims to be a complement to the painstakingly researched outer life of Emerson by focusing on the great sage's inner life-not just his intellectual biography but the very nature of his thinking.
Whicher stresses the life of "spectator-ship" that the young Emerson, perpetually ill as he turned out to be, was condemned to. His writings, especially his private thoughts recorded in his journals, document the ebb and flow of his spirit, alternatively listless and resolute.
Whicher stresses the life of "spectator-ship" that the young Emerson, perpetually ill as he turned out to be, was condemned to. His writings, especially his private thoughts recorded in his journals, document the ebb and flow of his spirit, alternatively listless and resolute.
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Series
Edition
2nd Reprint 2016 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-2018-8 (9781512820188)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Stephen E. Whicher