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- The Other Emerson
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
summary
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most significant figures in nineteenth-century American literature and culture-indeed, this collection argues, in the history of philosophy. The Other Emerson is a thorough reassessment of the philosophical underpinnings, theoretical innovations, and ethical and political implications of the prose writings of one of America's most enduring thinkers.
Considering Emerson first and foremost as a daring and original thinker, The Other Emerson focuses on three Emersonian subjects-subjectivity, the political, and the nature of philosophy-and range in topic from Emerson's relationships to slavery and mourning to his place in the development of Romanticism as reread by contemporary systems theory. It is Emerson's appreciation of truth's instability that link him to the European philosophical tradition.
Contributors: Eduardo Cadava, Princeton U; Sharon Cameron, Johns Hopkins U; Russell B. Goodman, U of New Mexico; Paul Grimstad, Yale U; Eric Keenaghan, U at Albany, SUNY; Gregg Lambert, Syracuse U; Sandra Laugier, Université de Picardie Jules Verne; Donald Pease, Dartmouth College.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-5
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. ix-xxxiii
- I. Rethinking Subjectivity
- 3. Brain Walks: Emerson on Thinking
- pp. 59-98
- II. Rethinking the Political
- 4. The Guano of History
- pp. 101-130
- 7. Emerson, Skepticism, and Politics
- pp. 201-226
- III. Rethinking Philosophy
- 8. Emerson, or Man Thinking
- pp. 229-250
- Contributors
- pp. 307-310
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816674879
Related ISBN(s)
9780816667482
MARC Record
OCLC
692336697
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No