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Emerson and Other Minds

Name: Emerson and Other Minds
Author: Michael J. Colacurcio
ISBN: 9781481311793

Idealism and the Lonely Subject

by Michael J. Colacurcio

Published by: Baylor University Press

Imprint: Baylor University Press

In Emerson and Other Minds, Michael J. Colacurcio traces the long arc of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings. While Emerson seldom argues academically in his essays, he intends the essays to be primary...

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In Emerson and Other Minds, Michael J. Colacurcio traces the long arc of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings. While Emerson 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.

Colacurcio proposes that Emerson is one of modernity’s central writers on the question of "privacy": the unsettling epistemological fact that even though people have the ability to share through language the experiences that shape their version of the world, no one else can fully experience another’s process of creating and evaluating the world. Emerson may imagine a transparent eyeball, but never a universal retina. This ineluctable privacy underwrites the famous moral doctrine of "self-reliance," but it also helps to explain the painful problems of love and friendship.

Colacurcio’s reading results in a two-volume compilation that reminds us of the importance of encountering and remembering Emerson for more than his famous sentences. Conversing with himself and other powerful minds on fundamental questions of human knowledge and behavior, Emerson produced brilliant essays--both philosophical and literary in the fullest sense--that richly reward closer examination.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Idealism and the Practical Reason1 Soul, Mind, Self, LawSome Notes on the One and the Many2 "Skull at our Banquet"The Subject and the Object of Love3 Faculties and VirtuesWhat Happened to "Holiness"?4 Circles and SurvivalsClosure in a World without End5 Signs and Village SymbolsPoetry as a Social Fact6 Consciousness and AscriptionThe Scandal of the Subject7 From Homage to Self-ComposureCharacter, Manners, and the Gift to Not Give8 Second NatureFrom Woodsy Scenes to Caucuses9 Reference and MeaningReason, Logic, and the Problem of PersonsPart 2. After Ethics10 Exempla HumanorumPossibility in the Place of Heroism11 Race, People, NationThe Soul’s Extreme Tuition12 Double Consciousness Nature, Inside and Out13 Educating the SemigodSelf-Culture without Narcissism14 The Higher EducationWorship, Wisdom, and the Endurance of Beauty15 "Our Conversation with Nature"Emerson’s Cave and Plato’s "Allegory"Epilogue: Solitude and Society, Philosophy and Literature

Michael J. Colacurcio is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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