Emersonianism

But only the trials and tests of practice (we'll skip praxis) may enable us to create a fruitful connection between the best of Emersonianism and a renewed democratic left.

Emerson and Socialism: An Exchange Howe, Irving 1987

So we have tried to do what Leo Marx proposes, that is, to make distinctions among varieties of Emersonianism.

Emerson and Socialism: An Exchange Howe, Irving 1987

The trouble with Irving Howe's interpretation of Emersonianism, in my view, is that he selects what he finds congenial about it and slights the rest.

Emerson and Socialism: An Exchange Howe, Irving 1987

This would explain why Emersonianism so often has proven to be "sadly inadequate," as Irving Howe puts it, for left (socialist-tending) politics in our time.

Emerson and Socialism: An Exchange Howe, Irving 1987

And that's one of the reasons I've come to the "considered ambivalence" which Leo Marx apparently thinks is too kindly a response to Emersonianism.

Emerson and Socialism: An Exchange Howe, Irving 1987

Most important, he slights the admittedly vague but widely accepted view of politics fostered by Emersonianism — a view which effectively precludes support for any imaginable socialist program.

Emerson and Socialism: An Exchange Howe, Irving 1987

One of the doctrinal sources of Mind-cure is the four Gospels; another is Emersonianism or New England transcendentalism; another is Berkeleyan idealism; another is spiritism, with its messages of "law" and "progress" and "development"; another the optimistic popular science evolutionism of which I have recently spoken; and, finally, Hinduism has contributed a strain.

The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality.

The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

The best part of Emersonianism is, it breeds the giant that destroys itself.

Emerson’s Books, (the Shadows of Them). Notes Left Over 1892

Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let

Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876