A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts. By Francesca Wade The discovery of ammunition from the 1700s ...

Nine score years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his American-spirited essay “Self-Reliance.” His thoughts echoed those of his soulmate, Henry David Thoreau, who went off to Waldon Pond to live it out.

As a genre, self-help books promise that fulfillment can be attained by sheer individual will. That offer is seductive, and in the midst of a global pandemic and public distress, many readers have ...

Booth Fowler channels Ralph Waldo Emerson and explores Emerson’s 19th Century philosophy. Booth Fowler, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison, channels Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

In all times of turmoil, tragedy, or suffering, we have placed in our path the opportunity to grow further and beyond what we are or were. It is the most fertile time to cultivate the Self, to believe ...

A funny thing can happen when you read Ralph Waldo Emerson while listening to Taylor Swift. I’d never associated one with the other, even when I’d crack open “Self-Reliance” and crank up “Evermore” — ...

Wonder Land: College Presidents' spineless response to antisemitic protests are the culmination of academia’s plummet the past 50 years which has included grade inflation, speech codes, trigger ...

Context has long been a critical determiner of methodologies for literary studies, granting scholars the tools to make objective claims about a text’s political or economic relation to the situation ...