Title: Selected Writings of the American Transcendentalists
First published: 1966
Description: This volume presents substantial selections from the writings of key American Transcendentalists, such as George Ripley, Margaret Fuller, Orestes Brownson, Theodore Parker, and Bronson Alcott. Included are sermons and diary entries, essays on labor, religion, education, and literature, on German metaphusics and Coleridge's philosophyof mind. Many are expressive of the movement's overarching project: to define the innermost meanings of democracy--the nature of man, his place in the world, and his relation to the divine. First published in 1966, this edition has been updated and expanded.
Subjects: Philosophy, American, Transcendentalism (New England), American Philosophy, Philosophy, Collections
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: B905 .H6