America After Nature
Democracy, Culture, Environment
In 'Democratic Vistas', a text that responds to the United States's devastating experiences of the Civil War, Walt Whitman reminds his readers that the nation should continue to find its political ideals and cultural purposes in the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God. His concept of nature was anchored in the ideas of eighteenth-century natural rights philosophy, but also in Ralph Waldo Emerson's definition of nature in the common sense as a totality of essences unaltered by human labor and industry.Whitman's contention that nature provides the concepts and ideas at the core of America's political, cultural, and social structure, and the curr…
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Weitere Autoren: Braun, Juliane (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-8253-6605-6
- EAN: 9783825366056
- Produktnummer: 19585209
- Verlag: Universitätsvlg. Winter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 485 S.
- Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.6 cm x D3.0 cm 681 g
- Abbildungen: GB; 29 Abbildungen
- Reihenbandnummer: 270
- Gewicht: 681
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