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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: ethics of oneness
    sub title: Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad gita
  name:
    name part: Engels, Jeremy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 265 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Early to mid-nineteenth-century America experienced a cultural fascination with oneness or monism, the notion that individuals are not separate from divinity but, rather, that the individual soul is an incarnation of the universal soul. Everything is one. This buzz of monism was traceable in part to translations of the Vedas by Indian philosopher Rammohun Roy and found some of its fullest expression in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. This oneness tradition is what animates Jeremy David Engels, not only because we can't understand Emerson, Whitman and other American philosophers without it, but because Engels thinks this tradition offers a way of thinking and acting that can meet the ethical challenges of everyday democracy in the present. The Ethics of Oneness is not only a brilliant study of the centrality of the Bhagavad Gita in the philosophy of Emerson and Whitman and a compelling reception history of the Gita in America, it is also a constructive project of moral and political philosophy intended to open possibilities for the present. If the lessons of oneness are taken to heart, Engels thinks, it ispossible to counter the pervasive, problematic American ideals of separation, competition, hierarchy, exclusion, and domination. For both Emerson and Whitman, American democracy requires a firm ontological foundation of oneness that is beyond question if it is to survive and thrive.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Oversoul -- Cosmos -- Bodies -- Two visions -- Genius -- Democracy -- Conclusion.
  note: Jeremy David Engels.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
      name part: 1803-1882
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Whitman, Walt
      name part: 1819-1892
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bhagavadgītā
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Monism
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, American
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Monism
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Civilization
    topic: Indic influences
  classification: B906.M66 E64 2021
  classification: 147/.3
  identifier: 9780226745978
  identifier: 022674597X
  identifier: 9780226746029
  identifier: 022674602X
  identifier: 9780226746166
  identifier: 2020038660
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200824
    record change date: 20210728155551.0
    record identifier: in00004395137