9781968950163 - the laboratory of friendship, emerson, thoreau, and the making of american philosophy von schery, allen (3 Ergebnisse)
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover the untold story of America's most transformative intellectual partnership-a friendship that became a laboratory for ethical courage, ecological insight, and democratic dissent.In The Laboratory of Friendship: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Making of American Philosophy, Allen Schery reco…nstructs Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau's relationship as a dynamic collaboration where visionary ideas met empirical rigor. Drawing on extensive archival research, Schery reveals how these thinkers tested, refined, and grounded their work in Concord's woods, waterways, and lecture halls-producing not only Walden and 'Civil Disobedience' but an entire methodology for pairing moral courage with disciplined attention to nature.Thoreau's bold annotations in Emerson's Nature manuscript sharpened Emerson's language into explicit calls for social justice, while Emerson's lectures incorporated Thoreau's precise river surveys and phenological observations, transforming data into moral exhortation. Schery shows that true dissent requires both expansive imagination and painstaking care-trusting one's deepest convictions while counting tree rings, measuring river depths, and calculating the real cost of simple living.Through seventeen richly illustrated chapters, readers encounter detailed case studies: Emerson's evolving lexicon of Over-Soul, transparency, and self-reliance; Thoreau's seasonal calendars tracking flowering dates for seventy-two native plant species; their joint editorial labor on The Dial amid financial hardship; and the publication histories of Walden and 'Civil Disobedience,' which expose the economic and logistical challenges they faced.Four practical appendices empower readers to become experimenters themselves.
