About the Author

David Jacobson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Reviews

“Emerson’s Pragmatic Vision is an excellent and thorough piece of reflection and scholarship. Jacobson carefully traces the transformations of Emerson’s vision and relocates the early material within the larger evolution of a naturalist perspective. He shows how ‘The Method of Nature’ marks a turning point in which Emerson moves decisively beyond his earlier humanism (with its attendant narcissism) toward a view which places the human process at the service of the much vaster and more compelling method of nature.”—Robert Corrington, Drew University