Nature (1836 book)

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Nature (1836 book) is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s foundational transcendentalist essay that explores the spiritual and philosophical relationship between humans and the natural world.

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instanceOf essay
non-fiction book
transcendentalist text
author Ralph Waldo Emerson
centralTheme self-reliance and inner experience
the spiritual significance of the natural world
the unity of God, nature, and the human soul
countryOfOrigin United States
firstPublishedIn Boston
form prose
genre essay
philosophy
transcendentalism
hasPart chapter "Beauty"
chapter "Commodity"
chapter "Discipline"
chapter "Idealism"
chapter "Language"
chapter "Nature"
chapter "Prospects"
chapter "Spirit"
hasReception considered a foundational text of American Transcendentalism
influenced American Transcendentalism
linked to: Transcendentalism

American literature
environmental thought
influencedBy German Idealism
linked to: German idealism

Immanuel Kant
Romanticism
intendedAudience general educated readership
length short book
literaryMovement Transcendentalism
notableQuote "In the woods, we return to reason and faith."
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
originalLanguage English
period 19th-century American literature
philosophicalPosition belief in an Over-Soul connecting all beings
emphasis on intuition over empirical observation
publicationYear 1836
publisher James Munroe and Company
relatedWork Essays: First Series
Self-Reliance
setting contemplative engagement with the natural world
subject American philosophy
human–nature relationship
individualism
intuition
nature
philosophy of nature
spirituality

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Spirit (chapter of Emerson's Nature) firstPublication Nature (1836 book)
subject linked to: chapter "Spirit"