Emerson's Life in Science

by Laura Dassow Walls

Book Overview

Ralph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of transcendentalism rather than the realities of contemporary science and technology. In Laura Dassow Walls's view Emerson was a leader of the secular avant-garde in his day. He helped to establish science as the popular norm of truth in America and to modernize American popular thought. In addition, he became a hero to a post-Darwinian generation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801440440
• ISBN13: 9780801440441
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher