Notes of Conversations, 1848-1875 (Hardcover)

This book is a scholarly reader's edition of a volume that nineteenth-century American philosopher and educator A. Bronson Alcott had intended to publish as the culmination of his ministry of transcendental talk. This volume of transcripts of conversations conducted at various locations in New England and the Midwest has been made from unpublished manuscripts in the Alcott collection at Harvard University and Concord Free Library, as well as published, contemporary articles in The Radical, New York Daily Tribune, and Chicago Tribune. Alcott held conversations on broad aspects of human culture, on literature, on philosophical idealism, on women's role and accomplishments, on abolition--on a whole range of social, literary, and religious reforms. The book includes a preface, as well as an introduction to his career as a professional conversationalist and a glossary of names and terms.