RICHARD S. HOEHLER - Three Transcendentalists

U S A, Richard S. Hoehler, 1972. First Printing, Binding: Cloth, Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Harback Hardback. What is transcendentalism? In the eighteenth century it was the working limig of human consciousness, as prescribed under Nature's Law. In the nineteenth-century it was 'modernized idealism'. In the twentieth century, transcendentalism becomes a non-pathological mode of analyzing human though process to the fundamental roots of our being. What there represents the actual position of Man in the universe? How does a unique system of nerves and glands relate to the existence of the Cosmos? What constitutes a basic sense of realism, as derived from ideal instinct or profound iontuition? Is Man to degrade himself to an early Pliocene jungle - by identification with servility and clverness - or is he with music and genetics destined to reach for the gods? Illustrated. 432 pp.