Emerson's Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. The Claim of Reason (1979/1999), The World Viewed (1971/1979), and The Senses of Walden (1972/1981) are among his many celebrated works. David Justin Hodge, author of On Emerson (2002), teaches philosophy and rhetoric at Harvard University.

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Author's Acknowledgementsi Editor's Prefaceii Author's Introductionii @toc2:1Thinking of Emerson0 2An Emerson Mood00 3The Philosopher in American Life (Toward Thoreau and Emerson) 00 4Emerson, Coleridge, and Kant (Terms as Conditions)00 5Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe)000 6Finding as Founding: Taking Steps in Emerson's "Experience" 000 7Staying the Course000 8Aversive Thinking: Emersonian Representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche000 9Epilogue000 10Hope Against Hope000 11A Cover Letter000 12What is the Emersonian Event? A Comment on Kateb's Emerson 000 13Emerson's Constitutional Amending: Reading "Fate"000 14What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist?000 15Henry James Reading Emerson Reading Shakespeare000 16Old and New in Emerson and Nietzsche000 @toc4:Index of Emerson Citations000 Endnotes000 Works Cited000 Selected Works by Stanley Cavell000 Selected Secondary Bibliography000 Name and Concept Index000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Criticism and interpretation, Transcendentalism (New England)Philosophy in literature

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