Less legible meanings : between poetry and philosophy in the work of Emerson /

"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�...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schirmeister, Pamela, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Criticism and interpretation.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882
1800-1899
Philosophy, American > 19th century.
Philosophy in literature.
Philosophie américaine > 19e siècle.
Philosophie dans la littérature.
Philosophy, American
Philosophy in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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