Religion and the American Public Philosophy
Stephen Whicher has suggested about Emerson in particular that the “dogmatic” optimism he vaunted publicly was something of a makeshift cover for the void he felt in private, a too-much-protested (and therefore sometimes callous) faith thrust upon him by “the ghastly reality of things.” Sacvan Berco...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1991
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Religion and American culture
Year: 1991, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-72 |
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| Summary: | Stephen Whicher has suggested about Emerson in particular that the “dogmatic” optimism he vaunted publicly was something of a makeshift cover for the void he felt in private, a too-much-protested (and therefore sometimes callous) faith thrust upon him by “the ghastly reality of things.” Sacvan Bercovitch At the same time there was in [William] James an awful loneliness. He lived in terrible personal isolation, believing that only individuality counted and that even its joys were fleeting. Much of his optimism was bravado.Bruce Kuklick |
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| ISSN: | 1533-8568 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and American culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/rac.1991.1.1.03a00040 |
