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9780742521742

From Nature to Experience The American Search for Cultural Authority

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742521742

  • ISBN10:

    0742521745

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-01-26
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Roger Lundin traces how pragmatism and its reliance on experience eclipsed nature and religion as the ultimate moral authority. He explores why Americans prize experience as highly as they do, what they build out of it in works of culture and their daily lives, how they manage to make sense of it, and where people might turn when they reach the limits of experience.

Author Biography

Roger Lundin is Blanchard Professor of English at Wheaton College.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(16)
PART ONE: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
The Preferences of Eden
17(24)
Delivered to the Dream: Emerson and the Path to Pragmatism
41(30)
Reading the Blooming Confusion: William James and the Theology of Experience
71(28)
Diminished Things: Literature and the Disenchantment of the World
99(28)
PART TWO: CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES
Divining Lives
127(26)
Intentional Ironies
153(24)
The Truth Beyond Method: Fiction at the Limits of Experience
177(18)
Conclusion 195(8)
Notes 203(38)
Bibliography 241(14)
Index 255(8)
About the Author 263

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