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... past several years , he has offered encouragement and savvy advice at many of the steps along the way . At Row- man & Littlefield , Steve Wrinn served as my editor at the beginning of the process , and Laura Roberts Gottlieb did so at ...
... past several years , he has offered encouragement and savvy advice at many of the steps along the way . At Row- man & Littlefield , Steve Wrinn served as my editor at the beginning of the process , and Laura Roberts Gottlieb did so at ...
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... past two centuries , have said about experience in the poems and novels , biographies and memoirs , his- tories and theoretical treatises they have written . It may seem curious to speak of a modern history of special reflection on the ...
... past two centuries , have said about experience in the poems and novels , biographies and memoirs , his- tories and theoretical treatises they have written . It may seem curious to speak of a modern history of special reflection on the ...
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... past cen- tury has shown us repeatedly how problematic this goal has been and how elusive it remains . The chapters in the second half of this book explore the limits of experience as a source of authority in cultural life , and they ...
... past cen- tury has shown us repeatedly how problematic this goal has been and how elusive it remains . The chapters in the second half of this book explore the limits of experience as a source of authority in cultural life , and they ...
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... past two centuries . Barth broke upon the European intellectual scene at the close of World War I with a trenchant cri- tique of the normative authority of experience and the priority of subjectivity in nineteenth - century theology ...
... past two centuries . Barth broke upon the European intellectual scene at the close of World War I with a trenchant cri- tique of the normative authority of experience and the priority of subjectivity in nineteenth - century theology ...
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... - tual traditions of the past century . There , in the history of American pragma- tism , we find a system that has striven to build exclusively upon experience , even as it has been confronted by the limits of Introduction 11.
... - tual traditions of the past century . There , in the history of American pragma- tism , we find a system that has striven to build exclusively upon experience , even as it has been confronted by the limits of Introduction 11.
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 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absalom Adams Alasdair MacIntyre American argues argument Auden authority believe Bonhoeffer Calvin Cambridge Charles Taylor Christ Christian faith church claims Compson consciousness contemporary contingent conversation criticism cultural Darwin decades Dietrich Bonhoeffer divine doctrine Emily Dickinson Essays Faulkner Foucault Gadamer Gadamer's Hans-Georg Gadamer Harvard University Press Hauerwas Helmut Thielicke hereafter cited hermeneutical Hirsch human experience idea ideal intellectual interpretation Jesus John Dewey Karl Barth language Letters literary literature lives M. H. Abrams meaning mind modern moral Nature to Experience Nietzsche nineteenth century novel object Philosophical play poem poet poetry pragmatism pragmatists Protestant Protestantism Quentin question Ralph Waldo Emerson reality religion religious revelation Richard Rorty Ricoeur romantic Scripture secular sense Shreve soul spirit Stanley Fish story Sutpen theologian theology theory things Thoreau thought tion tradition trans truth understanding W. H. Auden William James words 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.