Endless Seeker: The Religious Quest of Ralph Waldo EmersonUniversity Press of America, 1991 - 169 pages Offers the first systematic study of Emerson as a religious thinker and analyzes him as a case study in expressive religious individualism. By filling an important gap in Emersonian criticism, it not only throws new light on Emerson's thought but also offers a critique of the individualistic ideology he first formulated. Contents: Spiritual Discernment; The Saturnalia of Faith; The Philosophy of Bias; The Higher Civility; The Natural History of Intellect; The Endless Seeker: A Cas in Expressive Religious Individualism; and The World of the Transparent Eyeball (diagram). |
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American Literature artistic attempt beauty belief bi-polar essence biases Boston character creative activity creative bias creative ecstasy cultivation culture CWRWE dialectical discerning process discipline divine doctrine double consciousness embody Emerson's post-Transcendental Emerson's religious Emerson's Transcendental Emersonian England Quarterly English Traits enthusiasm essay esthetic eternal ethical evil experience expressive individualism fact factual fate finite Gay Wilson Allen Goethe grasp humanity's Ibid ideal imagination impersonal infinite inner inspired instinct intuitive Joel Porte journal Kenneth Cameron limitations linear logic McGiffert metaphysical method mind moral Moreover mystical nature Neo-Platonic one's op.cit Over-Soul perception personal bias philosophy of bias Philosophy of History Plotinus post-Transcendental Emerson pre-Transcendental period Ralph Waldo Emerson reality realm reflections religion Representative saturnalia of faith Second Great Awakening selfish sense sensible Sermons skepticism soul speculative spiritual discernment Swedenborg teleological thought transcendent Transcendental discernment Transcendental Emerson Transcendental period Transcendentalists transformed truth Unitarian universal vision