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Emersonian Self-Culture and Individual Growth

The American Appropriation of Bildung

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Theories of Bildung and Growth

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In the anglophone world of philosophy, particularly in the 19th century, Bildung was a central theme for various reasons. On the one hand, American Romanticism was crucially sparked by the appropriation of European classics, above others Kant and the post-Kantian idealists, by English commentators such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle.

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Kovalainen, H.A. (2012). Emersonian Self-Culture and Individual Growth. In: Theories of Bildung and Growth. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-031-6_12

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