What the mirror seesReflection and Wholeness in Emerson and Heidegger
ISSN: 1889-1128
Any de publicació: 2008
Número: 1
Pàgines: 83-95
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Liburna
Resum
This essay compares several of the basic ideas in Ralph Waldo Emerson�s Transcendental poetry and philosophy (knowledge through intuition, renunciation of the will to power, artistic creation as a natural process) with some fundamental concepts of Martin Heidegger�s Existential philosophy (letting�be, reflection), suggesting a historical�though not necessarily causal�continuity between the two. The fact that both of them advocate a more passive, or receptive, attitude for the human being and conceive of thought as a devout response to existence indicates that they form part of the same alternative Romantic current in Occidental culture that encourages a return for western thinking to a holistic paradigm.