From Nature to Experience: The American Search for Cultural Authority

by Roger Lundin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742521745
• ISBN13: 9780742521742
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"