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Three Roads Back
Book • 2023
Three Roads Back examines how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James responded to profound grief and loss in their lives.
The book demonstrates how each thinker found their own path to resilience: Emerson lost his Unitarian faith but found solace in nature; Thoreau discovered that 'death is the law of new life,' an insight expressed in Walden; and James, after experiencing panic and despair following his cousin Minny Temple's death, underwent a redemptive conversion that shaped his revolutionary work in psychology and philosophy.
Richardson shows how their responses to these losses ultimately influenced the birth and course of American literature and philosophical thought.
The book demonstrates how each thinker found their own path to resilience: Emerson lost his Unitarian faith but found solace in nature; Thoreau discovered that 'death is the law of new life,' an insight expressed in Walden; and James, after experiencing panic and despair following his cousin Minny Temple's death, underwent a redemptive conversion that shaped his revolutionary work in psychology and philosophy.
Richardson shows how their responses to these losses ultimately influenced the birth and course of American literature and philosophical thought.
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Michael Kovnat
Life Changes You. The Question Is How.
