Birds and poets, with other papers, by John Burroughs.

Burroughs, John

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“…His introduction came with a very specific interpretation of Emerson which Burroughs had developed through the course of his career as America’s foremost literary naturalist (Renehan, 1992). Burroughs did not just read Emerson as a key figure in the history of ideas and America’s literary canon, or as a precursory writer to the work of American Pragmatists, but rather as a ‘prophet and philosopher of young men’, whose appeal to ‘ youth and to genius ’ (Burroughs, 1904: 202, 205, italics in original) was contained in the mysticism and idealism of his early visionary works (Burroughs, 1904: 182). These early, Transcendentalist texts, he suggested, could be read ‘in a sort of ecstasy’ appealing to an individual’s ‘spiritual side’ and allowing ‘his boldness and unconventionality’ to take a deep hold on the receptive individual (Barrus, 1968a: 41).…”

Section: ‘Extremes Meet’: Ford’s Encounter With Emerson’s Writing and Thought (1913)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This emphasis was one he shared with the figure who introduced him to Emerson’s writing and thought (Kanze, 1999; Renehan, 1992; Tallmadge, 2007; Warren, 2010: 14–41). Writing in his Birds and Poets (1904, first published in 1887), Burroughs (1904) explained that ‘Emerson’s quality has changed a good deal in his later writings . .…”

Section: Ford’s Emersonianism and Emerson’s Transcendentalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ford’s metaphysics: On the Transcendental origins of Henry Ford’s Fordism

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2020

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Since it was first articulated by Antonio Gramsci in his Prison Notebooks (1929–1935), Fordism has been understood at two interconnected levels. At one level, it is understood in secular materialist terms as an archetypal system of mass production. At another, as a techno-economic paradigm of capitalist expansion. However, little attention has been given to the philosophical influences and ideas that underpinned Henry Ford’s (1863–1947) worldview and how this came to influence the formation of the factory systems at his Highland Park and River Rouge complexes. In most textbooks, it is assumed that Ford based his industrial design on a technological intensification of F.W. Taylor’s Principles of Scientific Management. This article seeks to examine the origins and rationale behind Ford’s factory system by exploring the relationship between his personal worldview and the ‘ism’ which came to bear his name. Through a cultural-historical analysis, this article critically explores Henry Ford’s personal Fordism, and argues that what has come to be understood as one of the most ‘secular’ and ‘materialist’ processes of organising ‘men and machine’ began with an attempt by Henry Ford to realise a ‘metaphysical’ ideal that was informed by the popular philosophical and theological thought of the previous century. By returning to the ideas and the context of this period, Ford’s engagement with the work of the American Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) is considered to both contextualise Henry Ford’s Fordism and explore the philosophical tensions at the heart of his organisational theory and practice.

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Section: ‘Extremes Meet’: Ford’s Encounter With Emerson’s Writing and Thought (1913)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ford’s Emersonianism and Emerson’s Transcendentalismmentioning

confidence: 99%