Letters to a Spiritual Seeker - Hardcover

Blake, Harrison G.; Dean, Bradley P.; Thoreau, Henry David

 
9780393059410: Letters to a Spiritual Seeker
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393059413 ISBN 13: 9780393059410
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Henry David Thoreau is famous for the literary In the spirit of Rilke's Letters to a Young excellence of his political and nature writings. Poet, here are Thoreau's reflections on God But his friend Harrison Blake understood that the and spirituality. "true significance of [Thoreau's] life" was in fact spiritual, and he presciently asked the then-little-known Thoreau for guidance in finding a path of his own. The result was a regular exchange of letters for the remaining thirteen years of Thoreau's life, charting the evolution of his skills as a writer and thinker. The possibilities and limits of spirituality, the role of vocation in developing one's spiritual life, the importance of a direct relationship between the individual and GodThoreau discusses these and more in his letters to Blake. The fifty letters, assembled and annotated here for the first time in their own volume by Bradley P. Deanwho has made the editing of Thoreau's manuscripts his life's workare by turns earnest, oracular, witty, playful, practical, and deeply insightful and inspiring.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Bradley P. Dean, an independent scholar living in West Peterborough, New Hampshire, has written extensively on Thoreau's life and writings, and has edited two of Thoreau's previously unpublished booklength manuscripts.

Henry David Thoreau spent almost his entire life in the village of Concord, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1817. After graduating from Harvard College in 1837, he developed a deep friendship with the writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, the foremost figure in the Transcendentalist movement. Emerson’s emphasis on the cultivation of intuition and experience as keys to personal and social enlightenment profoundly influenced Thoreau. In 1845, Thoreau built a small cabin on a parcel of land Emerson owned near Walden Pond, where he lived for most of two years, seeking a new relationship to nature, society, and his own self. His experiences there are the raw material of his masterpiece, Walden, or Life in the Woods. Although he was first and last a writer and outdoorsman, Thoreau worked as a surveyor and handyman and was an active abolitionist and opponent of war and imperialism. He died in 1862 of tuberculosis.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393059413
ISBN 13 
9780393059410
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
192
Herausgeber
Dean Bradley P.
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