The Tao of Emerson (11 page)

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Quantum Soup: A Philosophical Entertainment
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Clarke, J. J.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
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The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
.

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The Analects of Confucius
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Watson, Burton.
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Watts, Alan, with Chungliang Al Huang.
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The magnificent calligraphy in this book is the work and the gift of my old friend Chungliang Al Huang, a Taoist master, author, musician, dancer, and internationally known teacher of Tai Ji and the art of Chinese writing. Of his many books, the first,
Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain
, after remaining in print for thirty-four years in English, is now available in thirteen languages around the world. I am honored by his contribution to
The Tao of Emerson
.

For personal and editorial support, I am especially grateful to Dr. Richard Geldard, a noted Emerson and Transcendentalist scholar, and his associates David Beardsley Alec Emerson, and Jim Manley at The Ralph Waldo Emerson Institute. This organization maintains the website rwe.org, which provides access on the Internet to every word Emerson ever wrote, including a digital version of the complete Journals. No one can engage in the serious study of Emerson without using this invaluable resource. I have been the beneficiary of an extraordinary amount of such assistance with this project.

I am continually grateful to Jill Kneerim of Kneerim & Williams for her steady, patient, and always enthusiastic shepherding of my books from idea to publication.

My thanks, too, to those who have given me willing and invaluable help in the development of this book: David Ebershoff, W. S. Merwin, Jon Swan, Larry Volper, Paul de Paolo, Deborah Smith, Ron Ragusa, my colleagues at Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts, Jon Umhoefer and The Arts and Humanities Foundation, and my special gratitude to my editor, Judy Sternlight, for her understanding and collegiality in the production of a complex book.

Always at the end of lists like these, but always preeminently first in providing help and wisdom whenever I need them, I thank my wife, Ann Arensberg.

R
ICHARD
G
ROSSMAN
is a psychotherapist, medical educator, essayist, and former book editor and publisher who taught about Taoism and Emerson for many years as associate professor of humanities at New York University and Hunter College. He has also been on the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Residency Program in Urban Family Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center.

He was contributing editor to
Health
magazine for ten years, and his articles on health and psychology have appeared in dozens of medical journals and popular magazines. Among his six previous books are
Bold Voices, Choosing and Changing
, and A
Year with Emerson
, which was awarded the Umhoefer Prize in 2006 for achievement in the humanities by the Arts and Humanities Foundation. He is married to the novelist Ann Arensberg and lives in Salisbury, Connecticut.

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2007 Modem Library Edition

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Introduction and Bibliography copyright © 2007 by Richard Grossman
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