From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural AuthorityIn this remarkable work, Roger Lundin seeks the source of American moral and cultural authority in the shift from nature to experience figured in the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson. While the pragmatic tradition concludes that experience must generate the very light that will lead us out of its own darkness, From Nature to Experience returns to religion for illumination and truth. This is a story of nineteenth-century sources and twenty-first century consequences in which literature, history, philosophy, and theology are joined in order to form a truly original critique of American culture. |
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Inhalt
The Preferences of Eden | 17 |
Delivered to the Dream Emerson and the Path to Pragmatism | 41 |
Reading the Blooming Confusion William James and the Theology of Experience | 71 |
Diminished Things Literature and the Disenchantment of the World | 99 |
CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES | 125 |
Divining Lives | 127 |
Intentional Ironies | 153 |
The Truth Beyond Method Fiction at the Limits of Experience | 177 |
Conclusion | 195 |
Notes | 203 |
| 241 | |
| 255 | |
About the Author | |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority Roger Lundin Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absalom According Adams American appears argues argument asks authority Barth become believe calls Cambridge century Charles Christ Christian church claims close concludes consciousness considered contemporary conversation criticism cultural death decades Dickinson divine doctrine early Emerson Essays existence experience explains fact faith force Gadamer give hand hermeneutical human idea ideal imagination intellectual interpretation James John knowledge language Letters limits literary literature lives look matter meaning mind moral nature never Nietzsche nineteenth century object offers original particular past person Philosophical play poem possible pragmatism preference present Protestant question reality religion religious remains Richard Rorty Scripture sense speak spirit story theology theory things thought tion tradition true truth turn understanding University Press writes wrote York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 2 - Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority American Intellectual Culture G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Autor/in | Roger Lundin |
| Verlag | Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0742548406, 9780742548404 |
| Länge | 278 Seiten |
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