ABSTRACT
Emerson wove religion into philosophy. His Transcendentalism, an American version of Romanticism, saw divinity in the phenomena and processes of the natural world. The Transcendentalist vision, in Emerson’s hand, privileged praxis over theory, holism over dualism, dynamism over stasis, poetry over prose. It even mollified the epistemological division between nature and the supernatural, rendering the ordinary as the locus of the holy. Emerson bequeathed such views, along with his Romantic epistemological approach, to pragmatism.
