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| Named Person: | Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Pamela Schirmeister |
| ISBN: | 0804730156 9780804730150 |
| OCLC Number: | 41944654 |
| Description: | xii, 222 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy -- American Letters and Cultural Therapeutics -- We Scholars -- The Question of Letters -- By Way of Jena and Carlyle -- Receptivity -- The Emersonian Subject: Reading and Transference -- From Philosophy to Rhetoric -- Letting Go -- Reading -- Alienated Majesties: Beyond Representation -- Reading Transference -- From Repetition to Remembering -- From Remembering to Repetition: Transference as Performativity -- The Subject in the Real: "Whim" -- Transfers of Reading: Toward an Emersonian Politics -- Settling Accounts: "Experience" -- What Counts? And Who? -- The Atopical Place of Community -- "Where Do We Find Ourselves?" -- From Exemplarity to Representativeness -- The Evasions of Representativeness -- Two Exemplary Detours: The Example, and the Scarlet Letter -- Un-writing the Community -- Measures of Silence -- Emerson's "Fate" and the Construction of America -- The Operations of Ideology -- Rhetoric and Responsibility. |
| Responsibility: | Pamela Schirmeister. |
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Abstract:
"Examining both why and how Emerson evades the ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy, this book entirely rethinks the nature of Emerson's radical individualism and its relation to the possibility of an ethics and a politics." "A revisionary study of some of Emerson's central essays, Less Legible Meanings also invites the reader to reconsider the nature of Emerson's influence on contemporary American culture and to discover new ways in which we might continue to understand his work. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book makes equal use of the history of philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.
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