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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date
May 18, 2015
Pages
130
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781512259674
ISBN-10
1512259675
Dimensions
0.30 by 8 by 10 in.
Weight
0.77 lbs.
Original list price
$7.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1860 and revised in 1876. In this volume, Emerson sets out to answer âthe question of the times:â âHow shall I live?â It is composed of nine essays, each preceded by a poem. These nine essays are largely based on lectures Emerson held throughout the country, including for a young, mercantile audience in the lyceums of the Midwestern boomtowns of the 1850s. The Conduct of Life has been named as both one of Emerson's best works and one of his worst. It was one of Emerson's most successful publications and has been identified as a source of influence for a number of writers, including Friedrich Nietzsche. While some critics like Harold Bloom place The Conduct of Life among Emerson's best workâBloom calls it âa crucial last work for Americansââit has only been paid little critical attention. As The Conduct of Life is, in parts, thematically grouped around practical life issues (e.g. 'Power', 'Wealth'), it has been discussed as participating âin the aspirations of the contemporary conduct-of-life literatureâ while opening up possibilities of gender fluidity. Also, despite the stronger reconciliation between self and society compared to Emersonâs previous, more individualistic works, The Conduct of Life is in no way a one-sided affirmation of American society, especially 19th century capitalism. Rather, it can be seen as a holistic attempt to develop âprinciples for a good, natural, adequate conduct of life.â As the dialectic approach of these essays often fails to come to tangible conclusions, critics like Ellen Vellela have described the whole book as weakly structured and repetitive. Others argue that ârather than trying to dissolve the ambiguous tension of Emersonâs texts, the different arguments should be valued as a part of a dialectic that productively captures the friction of opposing poles.â In this way, âthe workings of Emerson (â¦), as well as his aphoristic, succinct expressiveness could be characterized as Emersonian inceptions: getting us to start thinking, planting thoughts.â Still others found an overarching unity of design to transcend the fragmentation of Emersonâs individual essays within the volume as a whole. More recent readings see Emerson as constructing an âebb and flow within The Conduct of Lifeâ that hints at transitionality as the âfinal reality of appearances.
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from Createspace Independent Pub (May 18, 2015)
9781512259674 | details & prices | 130 pages | 8.00 × 10.00 × 0.30 in. | 0.77 lbs | List price $7.95
About: The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1860 and revised in 1876.
About: The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1860 and revised in 1876.
from Createspace Independent Pub (September 7, 2014)
9781501097522 | details & prices | 114 pages | 7.00 × 10.00 × 0.26 in. | List price $7.95
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