Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell

Published by Stanford University Press 2003

Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell
Edited by: David Justin Hodge

In the series Cultural Memory in the Present

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503620285

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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effort of that labor is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and the history of its emergence.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 on Emerson. Such engagement should be further complemented by extensive indices and annotations. 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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Author’s Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Thinking of Emerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
2 An Emerson Mood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
4 The Philosopher in American Life (toward Thoreau and Emerson) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4 Emerson, Coleridge, Kant (Terms as Conditions) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
5 Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
6 Finding as Founding: Taking Steps in Emerson’s “Experience” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
7 Aversive Thinking: Emersonian Representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
8 Hope against Hope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
9 What Is the Emersonian Event? A Comment on Kateb’s Emerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
10 Emerson’s Constitutional Amending: Reading “Fate” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
11 What’s the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
12 Old and New in Emerson and Nietzsche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
13 Henry James Reading Emerson Reading Shakespeare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Books by Stanley Cavell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Selected Books and Collections on Cavell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 296

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Published: November 11, 2003
ISBN: 9781503620285