Branka Arsic is associate professor of American literature at the University at Albany, SUNY.Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University.Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBranka Arsi and Cary WolfeI. Rethinking Subjectivity1. The Way of Life by Abandonment: Emerson's ImpersonalSharon Cameron2. Paths of Coherence through Emerson's Philosophy: The Case of "Nominalist and Realist"Russell B. Goodman3. Brain Walks: Emerson on ThinkingBranka ArsiII. Rethinking the Political4. The Guano of HistoryEduardo Cadava5. "Experience," Anti-Slavery, and the Crisis of EmersonianismDonald E. Pease6. Reading Emerson, In Other Times: On a Politics of Solitude and an Ethics of RiskEric Keenaghan7. Emerson, Skepticism, and PoliticsSandra LaugierIII. Rethinking Philosophy8. Emerson, or Man ThinkingGregg Lambert9. Emerson's Adjacencies: Radical Empiricism in NaturePaul Grimstad10. "The Eye is the First Circle": Emerson's "Romanticism," Cavell's Skepticism, Luhmann's ModernityCary WolfeAfterwordStanley CavellContributorsIndex

Branka Arsic is associate professor of American literature at the University at Albany, SUNY.Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University.Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBranka Arsi and Cary WolfeI. Rethinking Subjectivity1. The Way of Life by Abandonment: Emerson's ImpersonalSharon Cameron2. Paths of Coherence through Emerson's Philosophy: The Case of "Nominalist and Realist"Russell B. Goodman3. Brain Walks: Emerson on ThinkingBranka ArsiII. Rethinking the Political4. The Guano of HistoryEduardo Cadava5. "Experience," Anti-Slavery, and the Crisis of EmersonianismDonald E. Pease6. Reading Emerson, In Other Times: On a Politics of Solitude and an Ethics of RiskEric Keenaghan7. Emerson, Skepticism, and PoliticsSandra LaugierIII. Rethinking Philosophy8. Emerson, or Man ThinkingGregg Lambert9. Emerson's Adjacencies: Radical Empiricism in NaturePaul Grimstad10. "The Eye is the First Circle": Emerson's "Romanticism," Cavell's Skepticism, Luhmann's ModernityCary WolfeAfterwordStanley CavellContributorsIndex

Branka Arsic is associate professor of American literature at the University at Albany, SUNY.Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University.Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBranka Arsi and Cary WolfeI. Rethinking Subjectivity1. The Way of Life by Abandonment: Emerson's ImpersonalSharon Cameron2. Paths of Coherence through Emerson's Philosophy: The Case of "Nominalist and Realist"Russell B. Goodman3. Brain Walks: Emerson on ThinkingBranka ArsiII. Rethinking the Political4. The Guano of HistoryEduardo Cadava5. "Experience," Anti-Slavery, and the Crisis of EmersonianismDonald E. Pease6. Reading Emerson, In Other Times: On a Politics of Solitude and an Ethics of RiskEric Keenaghan7. Emerson, Skepticism, and PoliticsSandra LaugierIII. Rethinking Philosophy8. Emerson, or Man ThinkingGregg Lambert9. Emerson's Adjacencies: Radical Empiricism in NaturePaul Grimstad10. "The Eye is the First Circle": Emerson's "Romanticism," Cavell's Skepticism, Luhmann's ModernityCary WolfeAfterwordStanley CavellContributorsIndex