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The Other Emerson - Softcover

 
9780816667482: The Other Emerson
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816667489 ISBN 13: 9780816667482
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Branka Arsic is associate professor of American literature at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University.
Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0816667489
ISBN 13 
9780816667482
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
360
Editor
Arsic Branka, Wolfe Cary