From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority (American Intellectual Culture)
Book Details
Author(s)
Roger Lundin
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN / ASIN
0742548406
ISBN-13
9780742548404
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#2,369,847
Category
Paperback
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Description
In 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.
