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Laura Dassow Walls - Emerson´s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth - 9780801440441 - V9780801440441
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Emerson´s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth

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Description for Emerson´s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.

Ralph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of transcendentalism rather than the realities of contemporary science and technology. In Laura Dassow Walls's view Emerson was a leader of the secular avant-garde in his day. He helped to establish science as the popular norm of truth in America and to modernize American popular thought. In addition, he became a hero to a post-Darwinian generation of Victorian Dissenters, exemplifying the strong connection between transcendentalism and later nineteenth-century science.In his early years as a minister, Emerson read widely in natural philosophy (or physics), ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801440441
SKU
V9780801440441
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Ref
99-1

About Laura Dassow Walls
Laura Dassow Walls is John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science.

Reviews for Emerson´s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth
'The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.... The day of days, the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things, to the omnipresence of law.' Emerson's Life in Science shows us how Emerson developed this faith.
The New England Quarterly
Emerson's Life ... Read more

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