Ralph Waldo Emerson addressed the Cambridge Phi Beta Kappa Society on August 31, 1837, in his address titled The American Scholar. He was given the opportunity to speak as a result of his ground-breaking book Nature, which was published a year earlier and formed a new perspective on the world for the developing American culture. Emerson offered, perhaps for the first time in the nation's history, a visionary philosophical framework for escaping "from under its iron lids" and creating a new, uniquely American cultural identity at a time when American culture was still heavily influenced by Europe, sixty years after the country's declaration of independence.

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• HistoryAmericasUnited States19th Century
• Politics & Social SciencesPhilosophyPolitical
• HistoryUnited States19th Century
• HistoryAmericas

• Publication Date: March 13, 2023
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• Print Length: 80 Pages
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