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    The Other Emerson

    Branka Arsic (Edited by), Cary Wolfe (Edited by), Stanley Cavell (Afterword by), Russell B. Goodman (Contributions by)

    9780816667482

    Paperback / softback, published 5 November 2010

    360 pages
    21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.435 kg

    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 Emerson's relationships to slavery and mourning to his place in the development of Romanticism as reread by contemporary systems theory. It is Emerson's appreciation of truth's instability that link him to the European philosophical tradition.

    Contributors: Eduardo Cadava, Princeton U; Sharon Cameron, Johns Hopkins U; Russell B. Goodman, U of New Mexico; Paul Grimstad, Yale U; Eric Keenaghan, U at Albany, SUNY; Gregg Lambert, Syracuse U; Sandra Laugier, UniversitÉ de Picardie Jules Verne; Donald Pease, Dartmouth College.

    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    Branka Arsi and Cary Wolfe
    I. Rethinking Subjectivity
    1. The Way of Life by Abandonment: Emerson's Impersonal
    Sharon Cameron
    2. Paths of Coherence through Emerson's Philosophy: The Case of "
    Nominalist and Realist"

    Russell B. Goodman
    3. Brain Walks: Emerson on Thinking
    Branka Arsi
    II. Rethinking the Political
    4. The Guano of History
    Eduardo Cadava
    5. "
    Experience,"
    Anti-Slavery, and the Crisis of Emersonianism
    Donald E. Pease
    6. Reading Emerson, In Other Times: On a Politics of Solitude and an Ethics of Risk
    Eric Keenaghan
    7. Emerson, Skepticism, and Politics
    Sandra Laugier
    III. Rethinking Philosophy
    8. Emerson, or Man Thinking
    Gregg Lambert
    9. Emerson's Adjacencies: Radical Empiricism in Nature
    Paul Grimstad
    10. "
    The Eye is the First Circle"
    : Emerson's "
    Romanticism,"
    Cavell's Skepticism, Luhmann's Modernity
    Cary Wolfe
    Afterword
    Stanley Cavell
    Contributors
    Index
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