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THE MYSTIQUE OF THE WILDERNESS: A LEXICON OF RELIGION AND THE VOCABULARY OF THE SUBLIME IN THE WORKS AND LETTERS OF JOHN MUIR


ANNA RUDELLI
University of Milan, Italy

Issue:

CP, Number 20

Section:

No. 20 (2015)  Editorial

Abstract:

John Muir (1838-1914), a Scottish born American writer, philosopher, naturalist, farmer, mountaineer, inventor and conservationist, never wrote a philosophical treatise on his “wilderness theology”, as Max Oelschlaeger defined Muir’s biocentric perspective on nature, but indeed produced a voluminous set of works that disclose his belief that man is part of nature in the same way as plants, animals and rocks are, thus abandoning the anthropocentric viewpoint on nature.

Keywords:

John Muir, Ralph Waldo Emerson, humanisation of nature, wilderness theology, biocentric perspective, lexicon of religion, vocabulary of the sublime.

Code [ID]:

CP201520V00S01A0007 [0004352]


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