Emerson and Science

出版者:Rudolf Steiner Pr

作者:Obuchowski, Peter A.

页数:144

出版时间:2005-5

价格:$ 28.25

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9781584200321

Emerson's lifelong interest in science is well documented in his journals, lectures, essays, letters and poems. He was especially interested in Goethean science, which both heavily influenced his monisticism and in turn kept him at arms length from Swedenborg's mysticism and pseudo-sciences of his day such as phrenology, palmistry and astrology. Emerson maintained a spiritually-oriented worldview whilst still believing in the progress of science. Obuchowski shows how the Goethean context helps to explain what he calls Emerson's 'scientific mysticism' or 'spiritual science'.