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A collection of lectures that examine such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge to show that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious philosophical response to the challenge of skepticism that underlies the writings of Wittgenstein and Austin on ordinary language.

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Preface and Acknowledgments 1: The Philosopher in American Life (Toward Thoreau and Emerson) 2: Emerson, Coleridge, Kant (Terms as Conditions) 3: Texts of Recovery (Coleridge, Wordsworth, Heidegger...) 4: Recounting Gains, Showing Losses (A Reading of The Winter's Tale) 5: Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe) Postscript A. Skepticism and a Word concerning Deconstruction Postscript B. Poe's Perversity and the Imp(ulse) of Skepticism Postscript C. The Skeptical and the Metaphorical 6: The Uncanniness of the Ordinary 7: The Fantastic of Philosophy Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/11/1994
      ISBN13: 9780226098180, 978-0226098180
      ISBN10: 0226098184
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      Book Synopsis
      A collection of lectures that examine such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge to show that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious philosophical response to the challenge of skepticism that underlies the writings of Wittgenstein and Austin on ordinary language.

      Table of Contents
      Preface and Acknowledgments 1: The Philosopher in American Life (Toward Thoreau and Emerson) 2: Emerson, Coleridge, Kant (Terms as Conditions) 3: Texts of Recovery (Coleridge, Wordsworth, Heidegger...) 4: Recounting Gains, Showing Losses (A Reading of The Winter's Tale) 5: Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe) Postscript A. Skepticism and a Word concerning Deconstruction Postscript B. Poe's Perversity and the Imp(ulse) of Skepticism Postscript C. The Skeptical and the Metaphorical 6: The Uncanniness of the Ordinary 7: The Fantastic of Philosophy Bibliography Index

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