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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Transcendentalism"”.
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Transcendentalism and ontology in Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology
… he has been able to manage the tension between transcendentalism and ontology. This assessment includes both his account of methodological idealism and his account of hermeneutic phenomenology. It will be my conclusion that he has been unsuccessful in overcoming the possibility of an inherent …
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From obscuring transcendentalism to functional openness in European Court of Justice scholarship
In this thesis, I explored how EU law scholars engaged with the case law by the Court of Justice. Inspired by the legal realism and critical legal studies approaches studied during my advanced master's degree, I called for more openness regarding the normative foundations underlying such …
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William Blake's American legacy: transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
This thesis examines William Blake's American legacy by identifying a precise American interest in Blake that can be dated from Ralph Waldo Emerson's early reading of Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1842. Chapter one will show that the New England Transcendentalists - primarily Emerson, but …
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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"
… 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 inspiration for …
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The Hybrid Apostle: A Religious and Cultural Biography of Father Isaac Hecker's Early Life and the Origin of American Catholicism, 1837-1858
… the intellectual and cultural movements within Transcendentalism that led Hecker in the direction of joining the Catholic Church. This study demonstrates how he used paradigms, personalities, languages, and literary tropes within Transcendentalism as an account for understanding his conversion …
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The Organic Imagination and Louis Kahn
… 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 Kahn's …
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Emerson, Greenough, and the transcendental esthetic
… Nevertheless, any serious study of New England transcendentalism must take into account the fact that it involved two distinct subspecies of transcendentalists: the transcendental ministers, who were not primarily estheticians, and the transcendental poets, who were. A serious study of New …
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An interpretation of Thoreau's 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 impossible to study …
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My Higher Self: Elizabeth Bishop and the Endurance of Emerson
… aesthetic and intellectual connections between transcendentalism and the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, there is to date no substantial study of what role Ralph Waldo Emerson singularly played in the inheritance of that tradition. This essay seeks to validate Emerson as Bishop's literary parentage, …
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Embedded Within Landscapes: Agrarian Philosophy and Sustainable Agriculture
… within heterogeneous landscapes. Thoreau's Transcendentalism and the historical roots of American Agrarianism are explored as influences for wilderness preservation and the New Agrarian movement. Idealizing a distant wilderness too often means overlooking the ecological and socio-economic …
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Saying the World Anew: A Philosophical Understanding of Communication as Testimony
… 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 into …
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Philosophies, Themes and Symbols in the Poetry of Walt Whitman and Han Yong-Un (Religion, Patriotism, Democracy, Freedom, Independence)
… of New England, Whitman derived a combination of transcendentalism and democratic ideology; whereas Buddhist philosophy inspired in Han national aspiration for Korean freedom and independence.
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WITHIN THE HEART OF EVERY HUMAN BEING: SARAH FARMER, HER LIFE, HER WORK, AND HER SEARCH FOR UNIVERSAL TRUTH
… particularly notable in the history of Vedanta, Transcendentalism, New Thought, and Baha’i. Ultimately Greenacre acted as a major force in disseminating a new spiritual inquiry focusing on Universal Truth, and incorporating a cosmopolitan, global orientation toward religion, science and social …
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Re-considering the limits and conditions of possibility of Foucault's understanding of the subject
… contrast Allen’s focus on Foucault's critique of transcendentalism by including his critique of positivism. Second, the relation between Foucault's presuppositions about the way in which we constitute the limits and conditions of possibility for modern knowledge. Last, the way in which the …
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Paradise Lost: The Biblical Fashioning of the East Indies in Dutch Chorographical Accounts, 1596-1726
… by Catholic immanence, and later by Reformed transcendentalism.
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A selected, annotated edition of the letters of George Ripley, 1828-1841
… source of information about New England Transcendentalism and its literary, philosophical, and political manifestations. These 36 letters from 1828 to 1841 chronicle Ripley's integral involvement in the most significant achievements of the Transcendentalists, translation of European …
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The concept of the lived world : an introduction to the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
… introduction, but because psychologism and transcendentalism are respectively the noetic and noematic poles of this intentional movement.
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Transcendentalist Aesthetics in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
… recalls the philosophy of New England Transcendentalism with its core in Ralph Waldo Emerson, and which influenced the philosophical writings of Charles S. Peirce and the art of the nineteenth-century American landscape painters of the Hudson River School and Luminism. The primary …
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Theology and Politics in Maimonides, Spinoza, Hegel, and Nietzsche
… itself within the context of the shift away from transcendentalism to immanentism which, at least in its modern phase, was initiated by Spinoza. Spinoza's vision is contrasted with that of three other thinkers: Maimonides, Hegel, and Nietzsche. While Maimonides clearly represents the traditional, …
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