%0 Journal Article
%T The Romantic Veil (of Perception): American Transcendentalism and British Romanticism as a Continuation of Lockean Empiricism
%A Knirsch
%A Christian
%J COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
%D 2011
%I University of Regensburg
%X When it comes to the epistemological basis of British romanticism and American transcendentalism, a traditional approach would certainly refer to Kant¡¯s transcendental philosophy which is commonly considered an antithesis to Locke¡¯s empiricism. A new trend in philosophical research now suggests that romantic theories are an addition to rather than a refutation of empiricism. This essay traces the interdependencies between transcendental thought and empiricism in the writings of Coleridge and Emerson.
%U http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/141/167