Between Faith and Unbelief American Transcendentalists and the Challenge of Atheism by Elisabeth Hurth ISBN 900416166X 978-9004161665

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ISBN 10: 900416166X 

ISBN 13: 978-9004161665

Author: Elisabeth Hurth

 This book sets out to shed light on what is specific to American Transcendentalism by comparing it with the atheistic vision of German philosophers and theologians like Ludwig Feuerbach and Arthur Schopenhauer. The study argues that atheism was part of the discursive and religious context from which Transcendentalism emerged. Tendencies toward atheism were already inherent in Transcendentalist thought. The atheist scenario came to the surface in the controversy about Emerson’s “new views.” Contemporary critics charged that the deity Emerson worshipped was himself. Emersonian Transcendentalism thus anticipated some of the central concerns in the works of German atheists like Feuerbach. From idealism to atheism seemed but a short step.

Table of contents:

 Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter I “The Spirit of Infidelity” Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harvard’s Early Göttingen Students
Chapter II The “Credentials” of Faith The Miracles Controversy in New England
Chapter III The Arch-Fiend of Christian Faith David Friedrich Strauss and New England Divinity
Chapter IV The Claims of History Strauss’s “Mytho-Mania” and After
Chapter V Man as God-Maker Feuerbachian Atheism in New England
Chapter VI From Idealism to Atheism Theodore Parker and the Projection Theory of Religion
Chapter VII The “Cures for Atheism” Emerson and Jakob Böhme
Chapter VIII “A World Without God” Emerson and Arthur Schopenhauer

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