Emerson's liberalism

Introduction : The political reception of Emerson

1. Progress : Journals (1820-24)

2. Reason I : Journals (1826-32)

3. Reason II, Virtue : Nature (1836)

4. Property, culture : "The philosophy of history" (1836-37); "Human culture" (1836-37); "Human life" (1838-39); "The present age" (1839-40); "Divinity School address" (1838); "History" (1841); "Compensation" (1841)

5. Skepticism (Reason III) : "Experience" (1844)

6. Limited government : "Man the reformer" (1841); "Lecture on the times" (1841); "The conservative" (1841); "The Transcendentalist" (1842); "The young American" (1844); "Politics" (1844); "New England reformers" (1844)

7. Natural rights, civil society : "An address . . . on . . . The Emancipation of the negroes in the British West Indies" (1844)

8. Empiricism : Representative men (1850)

9. Liberty, commerce : "Biography" (1835); "English literature" (1835-36); English traits (1856)

Conclusion : The conduct of life (1860); "The President's proclamation" (1862); "The Fortune of the Republic" (1863)