From nature to experience : the American search for cultural authority
"In his first major work, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson hymned the praises of nature as an enduring source of spiritual tonic and moral power. Yet, as he later wrote in his essay "Experience," Emerson came to doubt that nature could provide solid ground for the spirit's dwelling. Emerson and other nineteenth-century thinkers turned to experience to provide anchors for values and paths to God. In the decades after the Civil War, the primacy of experience became the premise and the promise of pragmatism, the one genuinely indigenous philosophical movement America has ever produced."
Print Book, English, ©2005
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, ©2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 263 pages ; 24 cm.
9780742521742, 0742521745
59818589
The preferences of eden
Delivered to the dream : Emerson and the pathways of pragmatism
Reading the blooming confusion : William James and the theology of experience
Diminished things : literature and the disenchantment of the world
Divining lives
Intentional ironies
The truth beyond method : fiction at the limits of experience