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#336 - The Secular Gospel of Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Dialogue with James Marcus
#336 - The Secular Gospel of Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Dialogue with James Marcus
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86 minutes
Released:
Apr 25, 2024
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In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with James Marcus about the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. They discuss how the book is formed and how themes are pulled from Emerson’s life, his religious background and relationship with religion over his lifetime, unitarianism, and when do we find our identity. They talk about first and second marriages, self-reliance and individualism, nature, slavery, his legacy, and many more topics. James Marcus is an editor, translator, critic and writer. He was editor-in-chief at Harper’s Magazine and worked at Columbia Journalism Review. He is the author of the latest book, Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Twitter: @jamesamarcus Get full access to Converging Dialogues at convergingdialogues.substack.com/subscribe
Released:
Apr 25, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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