Essais de Philosophie Américaine (Classic Reprint)

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Fb&c Limited, 17 janv. 2018 - 382 pages
Excerpt from Essais de Philosophie Américaine

Un tel bonheur nous a été donné la première fois que le petit li\ re d'emerson est tombé sous nos yeux. Bien des événements se sont passés et bien des années dejà se sont écoulées depuis cette minute pleine de ravissements, et pourtant notre admiration pour ces pages a résisté aux inévitables modifications que le temps a tant subir à notre pensée; les événements n'ont fait que confirmer notre opinion sur les tendances de ces doctrines, et n'ont fait pour ainsi lire qu'approuver nos sympathies; en un mot, le cours du temps nous a convaincu que le plaisir que nous avions pris en lisant ces Essms n'était pas la puérile joie de nous sentir amusé, mais pro venait du sentiment que nous avions reçu les confidences d'un es prit épris de la vérité; c'est pourquoi nous offrons avec confiance au lecteur cette traduction. Notre admiration n'est-elle qu'une illu sion? Le public français prononcera et jugera.

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Known primarily as the leader of the philosophical movement transcendentalism, which stresses the ties of humans to nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and essayist, was born in Boston in 1803. From a long line of religious leaders, Emerson became the minister of the Second Church (Unitarian) in 1829. He left the church in 1832 because of profound differences in interpretation and doubts about church doctrine. He visited England and met with British writers and philosophers. It was during this first excursion abroad that Emerson formulated his ideas for Self-Reliance. He returned to the United States in 1833 and settled in Concord, Massachusetts. He began lecturing in Boston. His first book, Nature (1836), published anonymously, detailed his belief and has come to be regarded as his most significant original work on the essence of his philosophy of transcendentalism. The first volume of Essays (1841) contained some of Emerson's most popular works, including the renowned Self-Reliance. Emerson befriended and influenced a number of American authors including Henry David Thoreau. It was Emerson's practice of keeping a journal that inspired Thoreau to do the same and set the stage for Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond. Emerson married twice (his first wife Ellen died in 1831 of tuberculosis) and had four children (two boys and two girls) with his second wife, Lydia. His first born, Waldo, died at age six. Emerson died in Concord on April 27, 1882 at the age of 78 due to pneumonia and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.

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