| Titre | "Respectable Iniquities" : le transcendantalisme et l'ordre social | |
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| Auteur | Yves Carlet | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 5, avril 1978 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | I – Reformers |
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| Page | 13 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
American Transcendentalism is usually described as a philosophical, religious or literary quest, and the high spirituality of the enterprise is assumed to have made its members indifferent or hostile to social issues. The present article questions this interpretation, quoting as evidence specific passages from Emerson, Thoreau, Ripley, Margaret Fuller, Parker and Brownson. It argues that the American Scholar had a keen sense of his social mission, and aimed at the regeneration of society, through poetry, preaching or reform ; that the Utopian side of Transcendentalism is not so far apart from its « literary » side as has sometimes been suggested ; and that what draws together the various ventures of the Party of Hope is a common strategy based on a retreat from the world, followed by a counter-attack of the « Spirit ». Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1978_num_5_1_987 |
