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Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting (Hardcover)
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Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting (Hardcover)
Series: American Philosophy Series
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Aesthetic Transcendentalism is a philosophy endorsing the
qualitative and creative aspects of nature. Theoretically it argues
for a metaphysical dimension of nature that is aesthetically real,
pluralistic, and prolific. It directs our attention to the rich
complexity of immediate experience, the possibility of discovering
new aesthetic features about the world, and the transformative
potential of art as an organic expression. This book presents the
philosophy in its relationship to its historical roots in the
philosophic and artistic traditions of nineteenth-century North
America. In this multidisciplinary study, Nicholas L. Guardiano
brings together a philosophic and literary figure in Ralph Waldo
Emerson, the scientifically minded philosopher Charles S. Peirce,
and the plastic arts in the form of American landscape painting.
Guardiano evaluates this constellation of philosophers and artists
in global perspective as it relates to other historical theories of
metaphysics and aesthetics, while simultaneously performing a
cultural analysis that identifies an essential feature of the
American mind. Aesthetic Transcendentalism thus possesses abiding
significance for our vital interactions with nature, daily
experiences, and contemplations of great works of art. Aesthetic
Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century
American Landscape Painting will be of interest to scholars of
American philosophy and American art history, especially
specialists of Charles S. Peirce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the
Hudson River School painters. It will also appeal to philosophers
working on systematic metaphysical theories of nature.
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