The other Emerson

The other Emerson

by Arsić, Branka Wolfe, Cary

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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 Emers…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The other Emerson / Branka Arsić and Cary Wolfe, editors ; afterword by Stanley Cavell.

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 Emer.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2010.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxxiii, 317 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780816674879, 0816674876
  • oclc:ocn692336697
  • LC Classification:PS1642.P5
  • Dewey Decimal:814/.3

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. RETHINKING SUBJECTIVITY; II. RETHINKING THE POLITICAL; III. RETHINKING PHILOSOPHY; Afterword; Contributors; Index.

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