# Ralph Waldo Emerson — Sticks and Stones character guide

> Ralph Waldo Emerson in Sticks and Stones by Lewis Mumford.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Emerson

**First appearance:** 0025-ii

## Who they are

Transcendentalist philosopher whose ideas on nature and art appear.

## In the story

### [The Disintegration of Architecture: 1820-1865](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sticks_and_stones_se/chapters/iv)

Cited as one of the last figures of the halcyon day of American civilization, though not at home in Europe's physical environment.

### [Chapter V: The Machine Age and the Dehumanization of Architecture](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sticks_and_stones_se/chapters/v)

Noted for his individualism being transformed by Nietzsche and becoming the mystic doctrine of the Superman, in a parallel to the transatlantic exaggeration of American modernism.

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