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2002
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Gérard Deledalle, « Emerson, philosophe transcendantaliste ou pragmatiste ? », Revue française d’études américaines, ID : 10670/1.wgsyae
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Western philosophy owes the United States of America two original trends of thought: transcendentalism and pragmatism. The present debate on the influence of Emerson on Wittgenstein raises the problem of the relation between Mind (as a national entity) and any individual thinking subject of a nation. Is the individual the replica of a Universal which thinks for each of us, as Wittgenstein argued? Or is “each man a state”, in other words “the root and seed of democracy”, as Emerson, and John Dewey after him, thought?