| From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority Contributor(s): Lundin, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0742548406 ISBN-13: 9780742548404 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - History | North American - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| Series: American Intellectual Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.36" W x 8.96" (0.94 lbs) 278 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |