'Liberal Platonism and Transcendentalism: Shaftesbury, Schleiermacher, Emerson.' Symbiosis, 1.1 (April 1997) 1—20

This essay, by a renowned scholar of the American Renaissance, was first published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations.
It was chosen as the opening essay of the first issue of that ground-breaking journal of transatlantic studies.

about the author

Robert D Richardson is the prize winning biographer of Emerson and Thoreau.