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Title: AESTHETIC INDIVIDUALISM AND PRACTICAL INTELLECT
AMERICAN ALLEGORY IN EMERSON, THOREAU, ADAMS, AND JAMES
By: Olaf Hansen
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 069163551X
ISBN 13: 9780691635514
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Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 19 April, 2016
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Pages: 262
Synopsis: Addressing vital issues in the current revision of American literary studies, Olaf Hansen carries out an exposition of American writing as a philosophical tradition. His broad and comparative view of American culture reveals the importance of the American allegory as a genuine artistic and intellectual style and as a distinct mode of thought particularly suited to express the philosophical legacy of transcendentalism. Hansen traces intellectual and cultural continuities and disruptions from Emerson through Thoreau and Henry Adams to William James, paying special attention to the modernism of transcendental thought and to its quality as a valid philosophy in its own right. Concerned with defining ideas of self, selfhood, and subjectivity and with moral tradition as an act of creating order out of the cosmos, the American allegory provided a basic and frequently overlooked link between transcendentalism and pragmatism. Its "suggestive incompleteness" combined in a highly dialectic manner the essence of both enlightenment and romanticism. Characterized neither by absolute objectivity nor by absolute subjectivity, it allowed speculation about the meaning of reality and about humankind's place in a realm of appearances.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publication: US
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Prizes: Short-listed for Choice's Outstanding Academic Books 1991 (United States)
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