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Der Transzendentalismus ist ein fester Bestandteil der amerikanischen Literatur und Kulturgeschichte. Die starke Konzentration auf die kanonisierten Figuren Ralph Waldo Emerson und Henry David Thoreau hat allerdings zu einer erheblichen Verkürzung dieser spätromantischen Bewegung geführt. Radical Beauty zeigt, dass der amerikanische Transzendentalismus eine Bewegung junger Intellektueller war, die einem utopischen Streben nach Ganzheitlichkeit Ausdruck verlieh, einer Ganzheitlichkeit, die sich besonders in der ästhetischen Erfahrung abzeichnete. Ausgehend von den ästhetischen Theorien Theodor Adornos und Ernst Blochs wird gezeigt, dass die neuenglischen Intellektuellen die ästhetische Erfahrung des Einzelnen auch immer als Vorschein der gesellschaftlichen Utopie sah. Die Studie revidiert das vorherrschende Bild der Transzendentalisten als idealistische Individualisten, indem sie zeigt, dass die ästhetische Utopie immer eine sozialradikale Dimension birgt.

Transcendentalism (New England) --- Authors, American --- American authors --- New England transcendentalism --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Examines transcendentalism as a distinct rhetorical genre concerned primarily and self-consciously with questions of power.

Transcendentalism. --- Transcendentalists (New England) --- Transcendentalism (New England) --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Modern --- Idealism --- New England transcendentalists --- New England transcendentalism

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Spirituality. --- Spiritual life. --- Social movements. --- Transcendentalism (New England) --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Life, Spiritual --- Religious life --- Spirituality --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- New England transcendentalism

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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.

Religious studies --- 211 --- God. Opperwezen. Oneindige: deïsme; theïsme; atheïsme --- Transcendentalism (New England) --- Atheism --- Transcendentalism --- Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine) --- Athéisme --- Transcendantalisme --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Philosophy --- Agnosticism --- Free thought --- Irreligion --- Religion --- Secularism --- Theism --- New England transcendentalism

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Visibility beyond the Visible. The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism is the first study to entirely deal with the poetics of American Transcendentalism. The author takes it for granted that the major New England transcendentalists were writers of utmost literary significance and so focuses thoroughly on their extremely rich and many-sided poetic discourse. The book’s inevitable European perspective only enhances its preoccupation with the Americanness of the New England Transcendentalists, thus making it emphasize, in all the aspects of its concern, the uniqueness of the interrelation between place-sense and artistry which the transcendentalists’ writings offer. Because most of these writings hold iconic stature as American masterpieces, both scholars and lay readers will welcome Visibility beyond the Visible. The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism as opening novel horizons for greater insights, deeper understandings, and further exploration of the poetic complexities of Emerson’s, Thoreau’s, M. Fuller’s, and their co-thinkers’ work.

American literature --- Transcendentalism in literature. --- Transcendentalism (New England) --- American literature. --- New England transcendentalism --- Intellectual life --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- 1800-1899 --- New England. --- Northeastern States --- Transcendentalism in literature