Description: Less Legible Meanings: Between Poetry and Philosophy in the Work of Emerson by Pamela J. Schirmeister, Schirmeister Pamela Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description 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. Publisher Description 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.The author argues that the quarrel between literature and philosophy never took place in America, and that instead traditional philosophical work staged itself here as a form of literary praxis and cultural therapeutics. Epitomized in the work of Emerson, this praxis takes shape explicitly in Emerson's understanding of democracy and occurs as an exchange within the act of reading. This is the exchange that Emerson so eloquently calls for in "The American Scholar" under the name of "letters." Emerson's project for American letters is the creation of a new national identity; as "Less Legible Meanings" makes clear, we have not yet understood the full range of implications that this project entails.After situating American letters in relation to German and British Romanticism and the features of American culture that augmented and altered their reception in the United States, the book goes on to explore the type of reading that Emersonian rhetoric engenders. Both persuasive and tropological, this rhetoric elicits from the reader something similar to psychoanalytic transference. Its goal is to lead the reader to a point at which representational logic breaks down so that a new subject can take shape. The purpose of such rhetoric, however, extends well beyond personal self-creation, because the construction of the subject emerges as the very possibility of the passage from the private sphere to the public one. In this passage, our entire notion of liberal individualism must be rethought, and with it, the pragmatic question of Emersonian ethics and politics.A revisionary study of some of Emerson's central essays, "Less Legible Meanings" also invites the reader to reconsider the nature of Emerson's influence on contemporary American culture and to discover new ways in which we might continue to understand his work. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book makes equal use of the history of philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and cultural history. Author Biography Pamela J. Schirmeister has taught at Middlebury College, New York University, and the University of Konstanz. She is the author of" The Consolations of Space: The Place of Romance in Hawthorne, Melville, and James "(Stanford, 1990) and has edited an edition of Emerson’ s" Representative Men." Details ISBN 0804730156 ISBN-13 9780804730150 Title Less Legible Meanings: Between Poetry and Philosophy in the Work of Emerson Author Pamela J. Schirmeister, Schirmeister Pamela Format Hardcover Year 2000 Pages 240 Edition 1st Publisher Stanford University Press GE_Item_ID:144703508; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780804730150
Book Title: Less Legible Meanings: Between Poetry and Philosophy in the Work
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Less Legible Meanings : between Poetry and Philosophy in the Work of Emerson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: General, History & Surveys / Modern, American / General, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year: 2000
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Author: Pamela J. Schirmeister
Item Length: 5 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
