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Emerson's Epistemology: The Argument of the Essays 1st Edition

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, an important figure in the popular understanding of America has been rediscovered by scholars and critics, yet there has been no critical study of Emerson's relation to traditional nineteenth-century questions about ethics and epistemology. In Emerson's Epistemology David Van Leer turns to this unexplored area of Emerson's philosophy and especially to the problem of his relation to the central intellectual issue of his age - the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant. Although Emerson would throughout his life try a number of vocational roles, he considered himself primarily a thinker. He saw his roles as poet and prophet as versions of the more fundamental one of philosopher. Thus an understanding of Emerson's relation to traditional problems about the theory of knowledge clarifies not only the arguments of the specific essays, but the shape of his complex career.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0521114314
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0521114318
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    June 25, 2009
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 0.76 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    304 pages
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In Emerson's Epistemology David Van Leer turns to the unexplored area of Emerson's philosophy.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (June 25, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521114314
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521114318
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.76 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Superior scholarly discussion offered.
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2008
This is a valuable resource for understanding Emerson in the context of his appreciation of Immanuel Kant. It takes RWE's most philosophical essays and painstakingly exposes the difficult language. Van Leer is philosophically savvy with appreciation of deconstruction and Wittgenstein.

Together with, for instance, Stanley Cavell's examination of RWE, the two offer a kinda, sorta deconstructionist reading of RWE. Van Leer examines the logical while Cavell examines the poetic, both of which are found in abundance in RWE. Each also comments on the whole literary context but neither comments on the other (except for a brief footnote).

The point is that until recently RWE has not received the serious scholarly interpretation that Van Leer shows is possible and needed. I use this book as a Rosetta stone for reading between the lines in RWE. Emerson's genius reaches new dimensions.
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