1st Edition
Emerson’s Affinities Father of the American Mind
Foreword Joseph Urbas
Introduction
Part 1: Emerson, Platonism and Romanticism
1. Emerson on Plato and Shakespeare: Intelligence and Weak Ties Graham Harman
2. Emerson and German Idealism Andrew Parrish
3. Emerson’s Anti-Scientistic Naturalism Michael Timm
4. Genial-Heat Imagination: John James Audubon’s Proto-Transcendentalist Sentimentalism Nicholas L. Guardiano
5. A Comparative Hermeneutic: Coleridge, Emerson, and Peirce on the Inexhaustibly Re-Ebullient Potency of the Creative Imagination David Dilworth
6. Emerson: “Nature’s God Neoplatonized” Jay Bregman
7. Emerson’s Transparent Eyeball, a Genealogy: Coleridge, Emerson, Muir Peter Cheyne
Part 2: Emerson, Religion and Metaphysics
8. Emerson, Progenitor of Independent American Spiritual Teachers Arthur Versluis
9. Nature in the Neoplatonism of Emerson and Al-Kindī Emile Alexandrov
10. The Over-Soul of Nature: Emerson’s Transcendental Philosophy and Vedānta Emma Lavinia Bon
11. Between the Over-Soul and Buddhahood: Emerson’s Engagement with Nineteenth-Century Buddhist Discourse Alexander O’Neill
12. Emerson’s “Pure Plastic Idea” and the Indefinite Dyad of the Platonic Heritage John Corrigan
Part 3: Emerson, Art, Ethics, and Education
13. Let’s Play with Symbols: Emersonian Filmmaking Within Hybrid Cinema Nick Karpinski
14. To Thrill and Agitate: Complex Figuration in Emerson and Lovecraft Steven J. Mariconda
15. Subject as Sepulchre: Identity and the Emptying of Tradition in Emerson’s 21st Century Roger Sedarat
16. Fichte, Emerson, Stiegler, and the Rediscovery of the Immanent, Self-Culture in the Era of Dissipation Peter Luba
17. The Floundering of American Education: Emerson’s Influence on John Dewey Steve Stakland
18. Can Philosophy Save America? Michael Ventimiglia
19. An Emersonian Approach to the Climate Crisis Owen Polley
20. Hermeneutic Circle: Emerson, Peirce, Heidegger Rossella Fabbrichesi
Biography
Emile Alexandrov is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tyumen. He works in American Transcendentalism, Graeco-Arabic, and Buddhist metaphysics. He authored The Other Platonist Beginning: Heidegger and Neoplatonism (2024), edited Buddhism and Neoplatonism I (2025), and is a co-director of the biennial International Symposium on Buddhism and Neoplatonism.
Steve Stakland is Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at Northern Virginia Community College. He specializes in the phenomenology of education. He authored Exploring What Is Lost in the Online Undergraduate Experience (2023) and edited The Phenomenology of Play (2024).
