Introduction
Part1: Emerson, Platonism and Romanticism
1. Emerson on Plato and Shakespeare: Intelligence and Weak Ties
2. Emerson and German Idealism
3. Emerson’s Anti-Scientistic Naturalism
4. Genial-Heat Imagination: John James Audubon’s Proto-Transcendentalist Sentimentalism
5. A Comparative Hermeneutic: Coleridge, Emerson, and Peirce on the Inexhaustibly Re-Ebullient Potency of the Creative Imagination
6. Emerson: “Nature’s God Neoplatonized”
7. Emerson’s Transparent Eyeball, a Genealogy: Coleridge, Emerson, Muir
Part2: Emerson, Religion and Metaphysics
8. Emerson, Progenitor of Independent American Spiritual Teachers
9. Nature in the Neoplatonism of Emerson and Al-Kind? 10. The Over-Soul of Nature: Emerson’s Transcendental Philosophy and Ved?nta
11. Between the Over-Soul and Buddhahood: Emerson’s Engagement with Nineteenth-Century Buddhist Discourse
12. Emerson’s “Pure Plastic Idea” and the Indefinite Dyad of the Platonic Heritage
Part3: Emerson, Art, Ethics, and Education
13. Let’s Play with Symbols: Emersonian Filmmaking Within Hybrid Cinema
14. To Thrill and Agitate: Complex Figuration in Emerson and Lovecraft
15. Subject as Sepulchre: Identity and the Emptying of Tradition in Emerson’s 21st Century
16. Fichte, Emerson, Stiegler, and the Rediscovery of the Immanent, Self-Culture in the Era of Dissipation
17. The Floundering of American Education: Emerson’s Influence on John Dewey
18. Can Philosophy Save America?
19. An Emersonian Approach to the Climate Crisis
20. Hermeneutic Circle: Emerson, Peirce, Heidegger