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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"American Transcendentalism"”.
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American Transcendentalism Contra Contemporary Political Philosophy: Applications of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Liberal Democratic Capitalism, Platonism, Islamism, Technology, and the "end of History"
… between ancient Platonism and nineteenth-century American Transcendentalism. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is a Platonic text that provided a foundational inspiration for Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and American Transcendentalism writ-large. Despite Carlyle being a chief source of …
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The Organic Imagination and Louis Kahn
… relationship between architecture, Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, myth, and religious mysticism in the ideas of the American architect, Louis Kahn. Part One builds a chronology from Hermeticism and Jewish mysticisms into German Romanticism and how they played a role in the world of …
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Saying the World Anew: A Philosophical Understanding of Communication as Testimony
… illustrate this, a reading of three figures in American Transcendentalism—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman—is offered. By thinking communication as testimony, as a making sense in common, the relationship between communication and a radical democracy to come is brought …
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Of glory obscur'd : beatific vision in the narratives of Jack Kerouac
… this vision under four of its root-aspects: American transcendentalism, Catholic apocalyptic writing, Dionysian fulfillment, and Buddhistic unconsciousness. Chapters three, four and five turn from the philosophical patterns of the Duluoz Legend to the more specific plot patterns of these …
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An interpretation of Thoreau's philosophy
… in his philosophy the principles of the American School of Transcendentalism. He was not interested, however, in formulating any system of Transcendentalism, as was Emerson, but his thinking was influenced a great deal by that school of philosophy so active in Concord in 1845. It is …
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THOREAU'S A WEEK, RELIGION AS PRESERVATIVE CARE: OPPOSING THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, MANIFEST DESTINY, AND A RELIGION OF SUBJUGATION
… a dominant oppressive trend in America as Native Americans and the environment are continuously devalued and pushed to the margins. Thoreau associates this oppressive trajectory with a Western politico-theological justification for the domination, conversion, and attempted extermination of …