The Faith of Emerson

American Transcendentalism, Kantian Epistemology, and Vedantic Thought

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The Faith of Emerson

American Transcendentalism, Kantian Epistemology, and Vedantic Thought

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In The Faith of Emerson: American Transcendentalism, Kantian Epistemology, and Vedantic Thought, Daniel A. Campana makes the case for seeing Emerson as a prophet for a new concept of religious faith that transcends the boundaries of particular religious traditions. By tracing Emerson’s intellectual development from his early years to his last works, Campana demonstrates the progression in Emerson’s thought from a dogmatic to a dynamic sense of living faith. He presents Emerson’s synthesis of Kantian and Vedantic philosophies as the key to understanding his life and works from a new perspective, forging a novel connection between Emerson’s transcendental idealism and developments in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. In both cases, post-Kantian epistemology provides the impetus for a notion of faith as an active, interpretive process that is not bound to religious truth claims. Vedantic monism supplies an image for how one might understand this interpretive process in its larger, metaphysical context. This book provides us a vision of life as participation in a narrative greater than ourselves, a narrative that may be spoken of in the language of various religious traditions but is not constrained to any one.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Emerson's Early Phase: Keeping the Faith-1803-1821
Chapter 1: The Intellectual Context: In America
Chapter 2: The Intellectual Context: Family and School

Part 2: Emerson's Revolutionary Phase: Rejecting the Faith-1821-1832
Chapter 3: Building Materials for an Alternative Faith
Chapter 4: The Breaking Point

Part 3: Emerson's Mature Phase: Faith Recovered-1832-1882
Chapter 5: Did Emerson Lose His Faith?
Chapter 6: Faith as Interpretive Act
Chapter 7: Seeing Emerson's Faith in His Works: Nature and Early Addresses
Chapter 8: Seeing Emerson's Faith in His Works: Oversoul and Self-Reliance
Chapter 9: Seeing Emerson's Faith in His Life: Brook Farm and Emerson's Alternative Vision
Chapter 10: Seeing Emerson's Faith in His Life: The Slavery Issue
Chapter 11: Seeing Emerson's Faith in His Life: The Problem of California

Epilogue: Emerson for Today

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Published 19 Sep 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 188
ISBN 9781666926187
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 240 x 159 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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