Self-Reliance and Other Essays - format ePub

« Au cours de mes voyages, je me suis trouvé avec un humoriste qui avait chez lui un modelage de la Méduse de Rondanini, et qui m’assura que le nom sous lequel cette grande œuvre d’art figurait dans les...

Vers la fin de l’année 1844, Emerson acquiert à Concord, dans l’État du Massachusetts, un terrain au bord d’un vaste étang. Cet étang, c’est Walden. Thoreau y vivra pendant deux ans, dans une cabane,...

La vie de Napoléon Bonaparte par sir Walter Scott a été accueillie avec un empressement, proportionné au talent incontesté de l’auteur, non moins qu’à la capacité et à la destinée merveilleuses de son...

Vers la fin de l’année 1844, Emerson acquiert à Concord, dans l’État du Massachusetts, un terrain au bord d’un vaste étang. Cet étang, c’est Walden. Thoreau y vivra pendant deux ans, dans une cabane,...

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"Every great man is a unique". R.W Emerson told us that Self-confidence is always about independence : "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in...

THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato...

Ralph Waldo Emerson zeigt in »Vertraue Dir selbst!« die zentrale Voraussetzung für den Weg zum persönlichen Glück: Genau in sich hineinzuhören, die eigenen Überzeugungen zu erspüren und nichts anderes...

Le texte qui suit témoigne d’une modernité surprenante. Son auteur, Ralph Waldo Emerson, y développe l’idée selon laquelle la confiance en soi-même, indispensable à l’épanouissement de chacun, est nécessairement...

"Société et solitude" est le dernier livre de Ralph Waldo Emerson, père du Transcendantalisme. Dans ce volume de douze essais tirés de ses célèbres conférences, il résume l’essence de sa vision du monde...

Aussi importante et symbolique aux États-Unis que les notions de liberté et d’égalité en France, la self-reliance renvoie non seulement à la confiance en soi mais aussi à l’autonomie de l’individu. L’âme...

Précédé d’un portrait de l’auteur par Henry James, le présent recueil groupe cinq conférences prononcées par Ralph Waldo Emerson entre 1838 et 1844. On y retrouve la pensée puissante d’Emerson, à l’image...

À la fois moraliste et créateur d’une philosophie morale inédite, Emerson dénonce l’égoïsme qui nous envahit, la richesse et l’ambition qui sans cesse nous sollicitent. Il interpelle l’individu et lui...

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Emerson reconnaît à chaque individu le besoin de richesse et sa légitimée lorsqu'elle provient d'un travail honnête dont les retombées profitent à l'ensemble de la société. Pour lui, la richesse s'acquiert...

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Dans La Nature, sa première œuvre, Emerson expose avec lyrisme les principes philosophiques qui dirigeront toute son œuvre : la cohérence intime de l’univers, la plénitude et l’harmonie de l’esprit individuel,...

Au cours de mes voyages, je me suis trouvé avec un humoriste qui avait chez lui un modelage de la Méduse de Rondanini, et qui m’assura que le nom sous lequel cette grande œuvre d’art figurait dans les...

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De même qu’une activité incessante anime le monde, pense Ralph Waldo Emerson, le grand philosophe américain, la vie de l’homme devrait être disponible à ce qui arrive. Aucune autorité, de nature religieuse...

Livre-manifeste, source d’inspiration pour Henry David Thoreau, La Nature (1836) est au fondement du mouvement transcendantaliste qui éclot dans l’Amérique du XIXe siècle. S’y déploie une pensée poétique...

Platon définit la rhétorique comme étant l’art de gouverner l’esprit des hommes; cependant le but de l’éloquence c’est de modifier, peut-être en un discours d’une demi-heure, des convictions et des habitudes...

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