Richard Geldard: 3 books
by Richard Geldard
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
No one who has felt the life-changing pull of Emerson's enormous planetary mind has ever doubted his power or his greatness, though we are often puzzled to know whether he is primarily a poet, an essayist or a philosopher. Richard Geldard is not puzzled at all by this; he has written a book that plainly...
by Richard G. Geldard
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
Interest abounds in the work of the Transcendentalists, such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott. Each year, tens of thousands of readers rediscover Transcendental thought in books and articles, and in visits to historic sites, such as Walden Pond. But few appreciate the truly mystical and contemplative...
Emerson and the Dream of America
Finding our Way to A New and Exceptional Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This timely work associates Barack Obama's election with a reemergence of Emerson's great Dream of this new yet unapproachable America. It's the first book to connect Emerson's rousing teachings for individuals with ideas behind America's founding and our promise as a nation. Geldard shows how-in contrast...