Emerson's Transcendental Etudes
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804745439 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A challenging but endlessly and unpredictably rewarding book."—The Times Literary Supplement
This book is Stanley Cavell’s definitive expression on Emerson. If we are still in doubt whether America has expressed itself philosophically, there is perhaps no better space for inquiry than reading Cavell reading 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effort of that labor is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and the history of its emergence.Students and scholars working in philosophy, literature, American studies, history, film studies, and political theory can now more easily access Cavell’s luminous and enduring work o
A philosopher's Emerson Stanley Cavell brings his usual brilliance to this somewhat disjunctive set of essays, disjunctive because they compose a series of lectures that sometimes overlap. I can honestly say I will never read Emerson in the same way again (and I've been reading him for thirty years). I thought it first odd that Cavell, an "ordinary language" or "Oxford School" philosopher would take on the 19th century casuistry of the inventor of man's "oversoul," but the essays are remarkably subtle and the reader will find them m. The Best Discussion of Emerson Cavell's analysis of Emerson is a delight for the synapses and a stimulant for the passions. He is able to discuss and articulate Emerson like no other scholar I have read. For me, reading Emerson (and Montaigne) is like having a conversation about ideas and life with witty and profound friends. Throw in Cavell and you have a new dialectical arrangement that brings new depth of understanding to Emerson's literary philosophy. Each chapter is fairly short (for an academic) and circles round, like Emerson's Essa