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From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority

From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority

Lundin, Roger

Hardcover

Series: American Intellectual Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0742521745
ISBN13: 9780742521742
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Feb 1 2006
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
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.

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