Emerson and the Conduct of Life: Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work.

Abstract

Introduction 1. The Mystic and the Self-made Saint 2. Politics and Ecstasy 3. The Text of Experience 4. 'Here or Nowhere': Essays: Second Series 5. The Eclipse of the Hero: Representative Men 6. The Old and New Worlds: English Traits 7. 'Work is Victory': The Conduct of Life 8. 'Plain Living and High Thinking': Society and Solitude 9. Toward a Grammar of the Moral Life Notes Works Cited Index.