Ralph Waldo Emerson (ENG-490)

A course dedicated to reading Ralph Waldo Emerson and exploring his enduring legacy in American literary, philosophical and religious thought. Students will study Emerson's sermons, essays, lectures and poems; the intellectual, biographical and cultural influences on his thinking; and the provocations his writing presents to readers-from the nineteenth-century British social critic Thomas Carlyle to the late twentieth-century philosopher Stanley Cavell.