Nicholas L. Guardiano is a philosopher and research specialist overseeing the American philosophy collection at the Morris Library archives.

In Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting, Nicholas Guardiano makes a case for aesthetic transcendentalism employing the work of Peirce, Emerson, and the Hudson School painters. Guardiano employs the inherent affinities in the pragmatic and transcendentalist traditions, affinities that are often overlooked, to make an argument concerning the aesthetic importance of nature—an importance that is both ontologically inherent and instrumentally useful for human culture. There are some wonderful old ideas here put to work to create new philosophical possibilities for the twenty-first century.

• Chapter 1: Poetic Sights/Sites of NatureChapter 2: The Trichotomic Logic of the UniverseChapter 3: The Aesthetic Consequences of CosmologyChapter 4: The Philosophy of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape PaintingChapter 5: Conclusion: Transcendentalist Vistas

Nicholas L. Guardiano is a philosopher and research specialist overseeing the American philosophy collection at the Morris Library archives.

In Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting, Nicholas Guardiano makes a case for aesthetic transcendentalism employing the work of Peirce, Emerson, and the Hudson School painters. Guardiano employs the inherent affinities in the pragmatic and transcendentalist traditions, affinities that are often overlooked, to make an argument concerning the aesthetic importance of nature—an importance that is both ontologically inherent and instrumentally useful for human culture. There are some wonderful old ideas here put to work to create new philosophical possibilities for the twenty-first century.

• Chapter 1: Poetic Sights/Sites of NatureChapter 2: The Trichotomic Logic of the UniverseChapter 3: The Aesthetic Consequences of CosmologyChapter 4: The Philosophy of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape PaintingChapter 5: Conclusion: Transcendentalist Vistas

Nicholas L. Guardiano is a philosopher and research specialist overseeing the American philosophy collection at the Morris Library archives.

In Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting, Nicholas Guardiano makes a case for aesthetic transcendentalism employing the work of Peirce, Emerson, and the Hudson School painters. Guardiano employs the inherent affinities in the pragmatic and transcendentalist traditions, affinities that are often overlooked, to make an argument concerning the aesthetic importance of nature—an importance that is both ontologically inherent and instrumentally useful for human culture. There are some wonderful old ideas here put to work to create new philosophical possibilities for the twenty-first century.

• Chapter 1: Poetic Sights/Sites of NatureChapter 2: The Trichotomic Logic of the UniverseChapter 3: The Aesthetic Consequences of CosmologyChapter 4: The Philosophy of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape PaintingChapter 5: Conclusion: Transcendentalist Vistas