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Transcendentalism, ancient and modern: Brownson versus Emerson.(Orestes Brownson, Ralph Waldo Emerson)(Essay)

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From: Perspectives on Political Science
Date: 20080101
Author:Deneen, Patrick J.

Abstract: After his conversion to Catholicism in 1844, Orestes Brownson became a strenuous critic of transcendentalism, particularly for its tendencies toward individualism and pantheism and its valorization of a form of "democratic faith." By contrast, Brownson commended a form of "democratic realism" derived from Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions that particularly recognized the need for mediation for human creatures that could not be fully at home in the world.

Keywords: Brownson, Calvinism, Emerson, democratic faith, democratic realism, individualism, ...

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