Robert Richardson, autor de las biografías magistrales de Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson y William James, nos relata en este libro las historias personales e interconectadas de estos tres autores que cambiaron para siempre la filosof&iacu...
Se cumplen doscientos años del nacimiento de Henry David Thoreau, un autor que, sin embargo, está más vivo que nunca. Seguramente porque sus escritos se entrelazan a la perfección con muchos de nuestros intereses e inquietudes...
After qualifying as a physician, Robert Richardson (1779-1847) joined the household of the earl of Belmore, and accompanied him and his family on a tour of the eastern Mediterranean in his yacht the Osprey, converted from a captured American schooner....
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death....