"Essay Volume 2" - Essay Volume 2

… In his lectures, “The American Scholar” (1837) and “Lectures on the Theology Department” (1838), both written in the 1930s, Emerson continued to passionately preach about the independence and limitlessness of the mind. His ideas were further developed in “Essays, Volume 1” (1841) and “Essays, Volume 2” (1844), on various concrete themes such as “self-reliance,” “friendship,” and “art.” However, especially in “Essays, Volume 2,” signs of a change in the romanticism that had existed up until that point began to appear. …

*Some of the terminology mentioned in "Essay Volume 2" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　おなじ30年代になされた講演〈アメリカの学者〉(1837)と〈神学部講演〉(1838)でも，エマソンは精神の自立性と限りなさを情熱的に説きつづけた。その思想はやがて《エッセー第1集》(1841)と《エッセー第2集》(1844)にいたって，〈自己信頼〉〈友情〉〈芸術〉など，具体的なさまざまの題目をめぐってさらに展開されていく。しかしとくに《第2集》になると，それまでのロマンティシズムに変化のきざしが見え始める。…

※「《エッセー第２集》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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