From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural AuthorityRowman & Littlefield, 2007 - 278 Seiten This is Volume Two, the second of two volumes which describe techniques for the inspection of railroad track in the United States. Track inspection is described from the personal perspective of a retired railroad and Federal Railroad Administration track inspector. This volume covers rail flaws, crossties, continuous welded rail, and other structural conditions. Volume Two ends with a chapter on new automated inspection systems. The book is recommended for new and experienced railroad track inspectors and anyone interested in railroad track safety. |
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... nineteenth - century Americanist for life ; a bril- liant man who possesses a deep moral sense , Mickey was a scintillating teacher and superb dissertation advisor . Gerald Bruns directed an NEH seminar I took early in my teaching ...
... nineteenth - century Americanist for life ; a bril- liant man who possesses a deep moral sense , Mickey was a scintillating teacher and superb dissertation advisor . Gerald Bruns directed an NEH seminar I took early in my teaching ...
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... nineteenth century , and Emerson's own work became one of the fault lines preceding the ruptures . If we place these two works as bookends for the most productive years of his career — Nature ( 1836 ) and " Experience " ( 1844 ) —we can ...
... nineteenth century , and Emerson's own work became one of the fault lines preceding the ruptures . If we place these two works as bookends for the most productive years of his career — Nature ( 1836 ) and " Experience " ( 1844 ) —we can ...
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... nineteenth century , the turn from nature to experience as the source of cultural authority coincided with the unprecedented rise of religious unbelief as a pub- licly viable option . Throughout the seventeenth , eighteenth , and early ...
... nineteenth century , the turn from nature to experience as the source of cultural authority coincided with the unprecedented rise of religious unbelief as a pub- licly viable option . Throughout the seventeenth , eighteenth , and early ...
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... century treatise , we find that prefer and preference figure centrally in its argument , and the same is true when ... nineteenth - century Ameri- can search for a viable theology of experience . At 6 Introduction.
... century treatise , we find that prefer and preference figure centrally in its argument , and the same is true when ... nineteenth - century Ameri- can search for a viable theology of experience . At 6 Introduction.
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... century re- vival of pragmatism has proved to be in many regards as important as its nineteenth - century founding . It is for that reason that the argument in the opening chapter moves readily between the earlier century and the ...
... century re- vival of pragmatism has proved to be in many regards as important as its nineteenth - century founding . It is for that reason that the argument in the opening chapter moves readily between the earlier century and the ...
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 |
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About the Author | |
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From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority Roger Lundin Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2005 |
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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.