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Dieter
Schulz
Emerson
and Thoreau or Steps Beyond Ourselves
Studies
in Transcendentalism
2012,
kt., VIII+307 S., 30,00 € / 35,00 $, ISBN 978-3-86809-057-4
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/ MasterCard accepted)
The
essays collected in this volume circle around the notion
and
the imagery of transcendence, a concept crucial
not only to the
Transcendentalist movement proper
with Emerson and Thoreau
as its key figures, but
also to their antecedents in New England
Puritanism
(here represented by RogerWilliams and John Cotton),
to their followers in twentieth-century Modernism
(notably William
Carlos Williams), and to our own
time. Highly critical of contemporary
politics,
society, and culture, the Transcendentalists also challenged
the objectivist claims of the “methods” or “ways”
advocated by the
sciences. The metaphysics of the
Emersonian scholar as well as the
Thoreauvian saunterer
revitalize the imagery of the way in an attempt
to
engage the world in a hermeneutical dialogue – a project
that is
timelier than ever in order to overcome
the crippling consequences of
the “two-cultures”
split.
PDF Contents
PDF Preface
PDF Introduction
PDF Rezension
in Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2015) [Auszug]
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