Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Renewable World

By |2020-07-23T16:12:08-05:00July 23rd, 2020|Categories: History, Modernity, Nature, Philosophy, Science, Time|

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work on historical liberalism and energetic conservatism suggests that the modern self must only divest himself of the “dry bones” of history in order to tap into the pure primordial “powers” of nature and so renew the world. Yet, is it not our collective heritage, both the good and the bad, that [...]