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![]() Transcendental Roots![]() Other German Influences on Emerson
Bryan Hileman, VCU
Friedrich Schleiermacher's Friedrich Schiller Emerson's philosophy of history shares many notions with that of Johann Gottfried Herder, though these were essentially due to a contemporaneous development of ideas rather than a matter of direct influence. Lorenz Oken developed a scientific philosophy similar to Emerson that had a slight influence on Emerson's philosophy of science. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's emphasis on the intuition complimented Fichte's conception of the 'I am I' to form an approximation of Emerson's vision. Jacob Boehme held for Emerson a place alongside Swedenborg as an inspiring though overly mystical presence. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel had little influence on Emerson until late in life, for his prose was difficult, Emerson's German poor, and Hegel's major work was not satisfactorily translated into English until 1855. Emerson's published work drifts away from philosophy in the 1840's. His next important revelation was courtesy of a volume by J.B. Stallo. This volume updated Emerson on the evolution of post-Kantian philosophy, particularly Oken, Saint-Hilaire, Schelling and Hegel. Hegelianism, which Emerson received primarily via other sources, along with an admixture of Darwinian evolution, was to be his primary philosophical influence from 1850 until his death.
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