The Conduct of Life

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Overview

First published in 1860 book, Ralph Waldo Emerson's book "The Conduct of Life" is among the gems of his mature works.
First published in the year of Abraham Lincoln's election as President, this work poses the questions of human freedom and fate. The book also reveals a developed humanism together with a full awareness of human limitations and may be considered as partly confession. "The Conduct of Life" ostensibly is a set of essays about how to live life, but also is an amalgam of what life taught Emerson.

"The Conduct of Life" emphasizes Emerson's philosophy and thoughts on such issues as freedom and fate; creativity and established culture; faith, experience, and evidence; the individual, God, and the world; unity and dualism; moral law, grace, and compensation; and wealth and success.

This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788835883050
Publisher:	E-BOOKARAMA
Publication date:	03/23/2023
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	581,305
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Editorial Reviews

Although the works of Emerson are studied in the departments of literature in the United States, we encounter on this occasion—as suggested by the subtitle—a genuinely philosophical reading, as reflected in the thoughtful Introduction by the editor...and especially in the patient provision of annotation of the nine chapters...Fortunately for us, this work...makes the original text much more readable and understandable...In sum, it is a good moment to return to to reading Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Anurario Filosofico - Jaime Nubiola

This well-organized editorial material is useful especially for students and general educated readers coming to study these works for the first time, but also for the specialist who wants to check details or keep up with central literature. The editor's notes offer historical contextualization, terminological and etymological clarifications, and information on both the well-known and the relatively unknown authors cited by Emerson.... Callaway has modernized the spelling of the prose, but otherwise the editions follow the originals.

Sami Pihlstrom

Although the works of Emerson are studied in the departments of literature in the United States, we encounter on this occasion—as suggested by the subtitle—a genuinely philosophical reading, as reflected in the thoughtful Introduction by the editor...and especially in the patient provision of annotation of the nine chapters...Fortunately for us, this work...makes the original text much more readable and understandable...In sum, it is a good moment to return to to reading Ralph Waldo Emerson.
— Jaime Nubiola, University of Navarra

Anurario Filosofico