Introduction Part 1: Emerson, Platonism and Romanticism 1. Emerson on Plato and Shakespeare: Intelligence and Weak Ties 2. Emerson and German Idealism 3. Emerson's Anti-Scientistic Naturalism 4. Genial-Heat Imagination: John James Audubon's Proto-Transcendentalist Sentimentalism 5. A Comparative Hermeneutic: Coleridge, Emerson, and Peirce on the Inexhaustibly Re-Ebullient Potency of the Creative Imagination 6. Emerson: "Nature's God Neoplatonized" 7. Emerson's Transparent Eyeball, a Genealogy: Coleridge, Emerson, Muir Part 2: Emerson, Religion and Metaphysics 8.

Emerson, Progenitor of Independent American Spiritual Teachers 9. Nature in the Neoplatonism of Emerson and Al-Kindi 10. The Over-Soul of Nature: Emerson's Transcendental Philosophy and Vedanta 11. Between the Over-Soul and Buddhahood: Emerson's Engagement with Nineteenth-Century Buddhist Discourse 12. Emerson's "Pure Plastic Idea" and the Indefinite Dyad of the Platonic Heritage Part 3: Emerson, Art, Ethics, and Education 13. Let's Play with Symbols: Emersonian Filmmaking Within Hybrid Cinema 14. To Thrill and Agitate: Complex Figuration in Emerson and Lovecraft 15. Subject as Sepulchre: Identity and the Emptying of Tradition in Emerson's 21st Century 16.

Fichte, Emerson, Stiegler, and the Rediscovery of the Immanent, Self-Culture in the Era of Dissipation 17. The Floundering of American Education: Emerson's Influence on John Dewey 18. Can Philosophy Save America? 19. An Emersonian Approach to the Climate Crisis 20. Hermeneutic Circle: Emerson, Peirce, Heidegger.