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American Transendentalism, by Philip Gura
American Transcendentalism ( 2007 )
by Philip F. Gura, who is at U North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hill and Wang, division of Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York.
www.amazon.com/American-Transcendentalism-Philip-F-Gura/dp/0809016443/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508181328&sr=8-1&keywords=american+transcendentalism
The cover picture is from multiple faiths, the figure is from Zoroastrianism.
They say that transcendentalism is planted deeply in California. I think this was someone writing about Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and the sequel, Sweet Thursday, and about the "bums".
Some aspects of transcendentalism I do go along with. Some of it comes from Kant.
But other I do not. I call the people, "New Age Lint Heads".
I trace this to what is desribed in William James's 1901 "Varieties of Religious Experience", and what he calls "Healthy Mindedness", and then the rise of things like New Thought.
I don't go along with any of this whatsoever and I make my disgust with its proponents known.
It looks to be a reaction to Calvinism and the Second Great Awakening, but as I see it, it is just a repackaging. Its people trying to be different from their parents, but actually being no different.
American Transcendentalism ( 2007 )
by Philip F. Gura, who is at U North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hill and Wang, division of Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York.
www.amazon.com/American-Transcendentalism-Philip-F-Gura/dp/0809016443/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508181328&sr=8-1&keywords=american+transcendentalism
The cover picture is from multiple faiths, the figure is from Zoroastrianism.
They say that transcendentalism is planted deeply in California. I think this was someone writing about Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and the sequel, Sweet Thursday, and about the "bums".
Some aspects of transcendentalism I do go along with. Some of it comes from Kant.
But other I do not. I call the people, "New Age Lint Heads".
I trace this to what is desribed in William James's 1901 "Varieties of Religious Experience", and what he calls "Healthy Mindedness", and then the rise of things like New Thought.
I don't go along with any of this whatsoever and I make my disgust with its proponents known.
It looks to be a reaction to Calvinism and the Second Great Awakening, but as I see it, it is just a repackaging. Its people trying to be different from their parents, but actually being no different.