| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Ralph Waldo Emerson expressed boldly and clearly his radical Transcendental thought in Nature , "The American Scholar," and the Divinity School Address. In Essays: Second Series (!844), however, we can easily realize another experimental Emerson, who began to widen his ideas to more realistic notions of human society and life. In this reseach project how Emerson's early self-centered Transcendentalism was shifted to later pragmatic experimentalism, and how it was related to 19th century American society is investigated.
Emerson, furthermore, exerted a strong influence on Japanese liteirary culture from 1880s to 1920s of Japanese history, and one likely reason for this was that Eemrsonianism exhibits marked similarities with Neo-Confucianism. In this research project affinities between Emerson's thought and the doctrines of such Neo-Confucianists as Lu Hsiang-shan, Wang Yang-ming, and Chu Hsi are found and made clear.
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