From Nature to Experience - The American Search for Cultural Authority

Informationen zum Autor By Roger Lundin Klappentext Roger Lundin traces how pragmatism and its reliance on experience eclipsed nature and religion as the ultimate moral authority. He explores why Americans prize experience as highly as they do, what they build out of it in works of culture and their daily lives, how they manage to make sense of it, and where people might turn when they reach the limits of experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: The Preferences of EdenChapter 2: Delivered to the Dream: Emerson and the Pathways of PragmatismChapter 3: Reading the Blooming Confusion: William James and the Theology of ExperienceChapter 4: Diminished Things: Literature and the Disenchantment of the WorldChapter 5: Divining LivesChapter 6: Intentional IroniesChapter 7: The Truth Beyond Method: Fiction at the Limits of ExperienceConclusion

Product details

• Authors: Professor Roger Lundin, Roger Lundin
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2007
• EAN: 9780742548404
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-4840-4
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: American Intellectual Culture; American Intellectual Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History of the Americas