From Nature to Experience : The American Search for Cultural Authority
by
Roger Lundin
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
American Intellectual Culture
ISBN-10
0742521745
ISBN-13
9780742521742
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 26th, 2006
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
494 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 18.20 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
History of the Americas
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Traces how pragmatism and its reliance on experience eclipsed nature and religion as the ultimate moral authority. The author explores why Americans prize experience as highly as they do, what they build out of it in works of culture and their daily lives, and where people might turn when they reach the limits of experience.
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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