Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great moral philosopher. One of his principlecontributions is the theory of selfreliance a view of democraticindividuality. _Nietzsche... » 

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great moral philosopher. One of his principlecontributions is the theory of selfreliance a view of democraticindividuality. _Nietzsche was Emersons best reader_ and George Kateb providesan accessible reading of Emerson that is friendly to the interests of Nietzscheand to later Nietzscheans such as Weber Heidegger Arendt and Foucault. «