Emerson's Transcendental Etudes

"[A] challenging but endlessly and unpredictably rewarding book."--The Times Literary Supplement

About the author

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.

Summary

This work is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. The sustained effort of 30 years of labour is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and its history.

Additional text

"[A] challenging but endlessly and unpredictably rewarding book."

Product details

• Authors: Cavell, Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge
• Assisted by: David Hodge (Editor), David Justin Hodge (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2003
• EAN: 9780804745420
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4542-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 220 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day