Emerson's transcendental etudes /

This book is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. The sustained effort of that labor is drawn together here for the first ti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018
Other Authors:	LaRocca, David, 1975-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Series:	Cultural memory in the present.
Subjects:	Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Criticism and interpretation. Transcendentalism (New England) Philosophy in literature. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Critique et interprétation. Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine) Philosophie dans la littérature. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Thinking of Emerson
An Emerson mood
The philosopher in American life (toward Thoreau and Emerson)
Emerson, Coleridge, and Kant (terms as conditions)
Being odd, getting even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe)
Finding as founding : taking steps in Emerson's "experience"
Staying the course
Aversive thinking : Emersonian representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche
Epilogue
Hope against hope
A cover letter
What is the Emersonian event? A comment on Kateb's Emerson
Emerson's constitutional amending : reading "fate"
What's the use of calling Emerson a pragmatist?
Henry James reading Emerson reading Shakespeare
Old and new in Emerson and Nietzsche.