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Informationen zum Autor John T. Lysaker is Professor and Head of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is author of Emerson and Self-Culture (IUP, 2008). William Rossi is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in English at the University of Oregon. He is editor of Walden and Resistance to Civil Government and several volumes of Thoreau's works, including Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings and Journal, volumes 3 and 6. Klappentext This lively volume explores the theme of friendship in the lives and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Written from diverse perspectives, the essays offer close readings of selected texts and draw on letters and journals to offer a comprehensive view of how Emerson's and Thoreau's friendships took root and bolstered their individual political, social, and ethical projects. This collection explores how Emerson and Thoreau, in their own ways, conceived of friendship as the creation of shared meaning in light of personal differences, tragedy and loss, and changing life circumstances. Emerson and Thoreau presents important reflections on the role of friendship in the lives of individuals and in global culture. Zusammenfassung Explores the theme of friendship in the lives and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. This title offers a comprehensive view of how Emerson's and Thoreau's friendships took root and bolstered their individual political, social, and ethical projects. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations for Emerson, Thoreau, and Carlyle Citations Introduction / John T. Lysaker and William Rossi Part 1. Transcendental Contexts 1. Transcendental Friendship: An Oxymoron? / Lawrence Buell 2. Forgiving the Giver: Emerson, Carlyle, Thoreau / Barbara Packer Part 2. Emerson's "Friendship" 3. "In the Golden Hour of Friendship": Transcendentalism and Utopian Desire / David M. Robinson 4. Emerson and Skepticism: A Reading of "Friendship" / Russell B. Goodman 5. On the Faces of Emersonian "Friendship" / John T. Lysaker Part 3. Thoreau's Divergent Melodies 6. "In Dreams Awake": Loss, Transcendental Friendship, and Elegy / William Rossi 7. "Let Him Be to Me a Spirit": Paradoxes of True Friendship in Emerson and Thoreau / Alan D. Hodder Part 4. Giving Friendship for Life 8. Giving Friendship: The Perichoresis of an All-Embracing Service / James Crosswhite 9. Leaving and Bequeathing: Friendship, Moral Perfectionism, and the Gleam of Light / Naoko Saito Works Cited List of Contributors Index ...
