New Morning : Emerson in the Twenty-First Century

by Lothstein, Arthur S.; Brodrick, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780791475270
• ISBN10: 0791475271
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-07
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

"New Morning brings together philosophers, poets, and literary critics to celebrate and engage the ideas of the great American writer and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's legacy influences many areas; he was a champion of democracy and civil rights, a naturalist, an idealist, an artist, a writer, and a philosopher. Rather than focusing on Emerson in his historical context, this volume brings to light the ways in which Emerson's voice and work still speak powerfully to the concerns of the present moment. In short essays and poems, some of America's most influential scholars and poets underscore the relevance of Emerson's thought to contemporary issues as varied as the environment, race, politics, spirituality, aesthetics, and education."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Forever Young: A Preface
Dancing with Emerson	p. 1
Emerson: An Introduction	p. 3
The Single Vision	p. 9
Windfall	p. 49
Spires of Influence	p. 50
Teaching for Lustres: An Essay on the Emersonian Teacher	p. 67
The Continental College of Beauty	p. 99
Emerson at The Gates	p. 101
Taking Emerson Personally	p. 122
Local Knowledge	p. 139
Face to Face with Emerson	p. 141
Emerson's Natures: Origins of and Possibilities for American Environmental Thought	p. 151
Shudder	p. 161
Emerson and the Reinvention of Democracy: A Lesson for the Twenty-first Century	p. 162
Individualism, Natural Law, Human Rights: Emerson on "The Scholar" vis-a-vis Emerson on Reform	p. 179
For the Children	p. 195
After Emerson: Of General Knowledge and the Common Good	p. 196
Letter to Lucia	p. 209
Contributors	p. 211
Index	p. 215
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