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100 1 $aLundin, Roger.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85038063
245 10 $aFrom nature to experience :$bthe American search for cultural authority /$cRoger Lundin.
260 $aLanham, Md. :$bRowman & Littlefield,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axiii, 263 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aAmerican intellectual culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-253) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe preferences of Eden -- $g2.$tDelivered to the dream : Emerson and the path to pragmatism -- $g3.$tReading the blooming confusion : William James and the theology of experience -- $g4.$tDiminished things : literature and the disenchantment of the world -- $g5.$tDivining lives -- $g6.$tIntentional ironies -- $g7.$tThe truth beyond method : fiction at the limits of experience.
520 1 $a"In his first major work, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson hymned the praises of nature as an enduring source of spiritual tonic and moral power. Yet, as he later wrote in his essay "Experience," Emerson came to doubt that nature could provide solid ground for the spirit's dwelling. Emerson and other nineteenth-century thinkers turned to experience to provide anchors for values and paths to God. In the decades after the Civil War, the primacy of experience became the premise and the promise of pragmatism, the one genuinely indigenous philosophical movement America has ever produced." "Roger Lundin explores this shift from nature to experience as the source of moral and cultural authority in America. Drawing on the resources of Protestant theology, he examines one of America's central intellectual traditions and shows the crucial possibilities it puts forth as well as the vexing problems it confronts. In the end, where 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." "A story of nineteenth-century sources and twenty-first-century consequences, this work brings together literature, history, philosophy, and theology to form a truly original critique of American culture."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117578
650 0 $aExperience in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004142
600 10 $aEmerson, Ralph Waldo,$d1803-1882.$tExperience.
650 0 $aChristianity and literature$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118538
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140363
650 0 $aPragmatism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008415
650 0 $aAuthority in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008614
650 0 $aTheology in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009148
830 0 $aAmerican intellectual culture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98056444
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005009617.html
852 00 $bglx$hPS169.E94$iL86 2005