The other Emerson / / Branka Arsic and Cary Wolfe, editors ; afterword by Stanley Cavell
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| Titolo: |
The other Emerson / / Branka Arsic and Cary Wolfe, editors ; afterword by Stanley Cavell
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 814/.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature |
| Altri autori: |
ArsicBranka
WolfeCary
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The way of life by abandonment: Emerson's impersonal / Sharon Cameron -- Paths of coherence through Emerson's philosophy: the case of "nominalist and realist" / Russell B. Goodman -- Brain walks: Emerson on thinking / Branka Arsić -- The guano of history / Eduardo Cadava -- "Experience," antislavery, and the crisis of Emersonianism / Donald E. Pease -- Reading Emerson, in other times: on a politics of solitude and an ethics of Risk / Eric Keenaghan -- Emerson, skepticism, and politics / Sandra Laugier -- Emerson, or man thinking / Gregg Lambert -- Emerson's adjacencies: radical empiricism in Nature / Paul Grimstad -- "The eye is the first circle": Emerson's "romanticism," Cavell's skepticism, Luhmann's modernity / Cary Wolfe. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Emer |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The other Emerson |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-7487-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822487703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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