Emersonian

Examples

• All

• As middle-class intellectuals, these men were not in a position to realize the egalitarian and democratic potential of their Emersonian heritage.

  Academic text (1991)

• Dewey's humanistic religion of democracy only appears to be the opposite of Emersonian individualism: we should see transpersonal psychology as continuous with Dewey, as well as with Emerson and James, in their shared opposition to any view of the self that takes the given as normative or limited.

  Academic text (1993)

• Here was Bushnell's own version of the Emersonian and later metaphysical theory of correspondence.

  Academic text (2010)

• In James's hands, the jargon of ideas takes on the force of Emersonian rhetoric.

  Academic text (1991)

• For instance, Peirce, too, was guided by an Emersonian ethos.

  Academic text (2017)

• Mumford's Emersonian approach to architecture and urbanism aimed toward moral reform.

  Harvard University

• Cornel West's concern to promote what he calls "an Emersonian culture of radical democracy" in America.

  Academic text (1990)

• I was American-born, endowed with an Emersonian sense of self-reliance.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Shasta was an Emersonian mountain; it occurred to Muir as he sat on its summit pinnacle.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Indeed, one significant accomplishment of Cavell's elaboration of what he calls Emersonian Perfectionism is his demonstration that it forms a coherent, open-textured, and continuing tradition of thought.

  Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

I

individualist

vsEmersonian

4 6.6

Being independent in thought and action

includes concern for nature as well as individual freedom

T

Thoreauvian

vsEmersonian

• Literature

1 9.9

Showing Henry David Thoreau's ideas of simple living, love of nature, and self-reliance

focuses more on broad philosophical ideas of nature and self

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology