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Traces the long arc of Ralph Waldo Emerson's writings. While Emerson's seldom argues academically in his essays, he intends the essays to be primary acts of philosophy. The essays are also highly wrought literary performances, and so they need to be closely read in the New Critical manner.

Table of Contents
  • Prologue
  • Emerson and Philosophy
  • Part 1. Emerson before Nature
  • 1 "My Time, My Talents, and My Hopes"
  • Private Writing and the Eloquent Self
  • 2 Man's Moral Nature
  • The Religious Subject and the Ethical Sublime
  • 3 "Another's Wealth"
  • The Self in Significant Relation
  • 4 The Great Secularity of the World
  • Religion and Science as History
  • 5 Persons and Letters
  • Emerson and the Science of the Human
  • Part 2. Paradigms of Thought and Action
  • 6 Noble Doubts
  • Experience, Subjectivity, Theism
  • 7 Pleasing God
  • Law Without Authority
  • 8 "They Also Serve"
  • Emerson and the Talking Cure

Emerson and Other Minds

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    A Paperback by Michael J. Colacurcio

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      Publisher: Baylor University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781481311779, 978-1481311779
      ISBN10: 1481311778
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Traces the long arc of Ralph Waldo Emerson's writings. While Emerson's seldom argues academically in his essays, he intends the essays to be primary acts of philosophy. The essays are also highly wrought literary performances, and so they need to be closely read in the New Critical manner.

      Table of Contents
      • Prologue
      • Emerson and Philosophy
      • Part 1. Emerson before Nature
      • 1 "My Time, My Talents, and My Hopes"
      • Private Writing and the Eloquent Self
      • 2 Man's Moral Nature
      • The Religious Subject and the Ethical Sublime
      • 3 "Another's Wealth"
      • The Self in Significant Relation
      • 4 The Great Secularity of the World
      • Religion and Science as History
      • 5 Persons and Letters
      • Emerson and the Science of the Human
      • Part 2. Paradigms of Thought and Action
      • 6 Noble Doubts
      • Experience, Subjectivity, Theism
      • 7 Pleasing God
      • Law Without Authority
      • 8 "They Also Serve"
      • Emerson and the Talking Cure

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