Emerson and Universal Mind - Softcover

Geldard delves into what remains of Emerson’s late Harvard Lectures to explore his core ideas on Mind, the Powers and Laws of Thought, Instinct and Inspiration, and Memory. In the process he presents Transcendentalism as an American development of the grand Neoplatonic vision. This one of a kind book concludes with “The Platonic Philosopher’s Creed” by Thomas Taylor, the great Platonist whose translations and writings Emerson studied in depth.

Richard G. Geldard is one of the founders of www.rwe.org, the major Emerson Internet presence, and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. He lives in NYC and the Hudson Valley (Kerhonkson, NY). Currently on the faculty of the Philosophic Research Society, he has authored ten books, including The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Transcendentalists, God in Concord and Emerson and the Dream of America.