Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-258) and index.
In English, translated from Bulgarian.
The New England identity of the term -- Puritanism and eighteenth-century rationalism -- Unitarianism and transcendentalism -- The emphasis on inspiration in transcendental aesthetics -- Transcendentalism: poetic-religious practice and way of life -- The New England horizons of post-Kantianism: Emerson -- The vision of the New England transcendentalist: Thoreau -- The enchantment of the voyage back: Margaret Fuller -- Traditions and individual talent. Emerson and Thoreau ; Self-reliance ; "Thoreau" -- Life as vocation. The harmony with the not-me: A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ; The artistic harmony: Walden -- Homocentrism and ecocentrism