Review of Jeremy David Engels’s The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita

Jeremy David Engels’s scholarly and ambitiously interpretive work accesses the relation of worldviews of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman by drawing on contrasting internal textual resources of the ancient Hindu classic, the Bhagavad Gita. He consistently plays out a polemical interpretation tha...

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Main Author: Dilworth, David A. 1934- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2023
In: The journal of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 103, Issue: 3, Pages: 379-389
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)

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