The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Series: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 8 September 2020
- ISBN 9781138351561
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 566 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 Halftones, black & white 94
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Short description:
This study offers the first comprehensive account of Emerson's philosophy since his philosophical rehabilitation began in the late 1970s.
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This study offers the first comprehensive account of Emerson's philosophy since his philosophical rehabilitation began in the late 1970s. It builds on the historical reconstruction proposed in the author's previous book, Emerson's Metaphysics, and like that study draws on the entire Emerson corpus—the poetry and sermons included. The aim here is expository. The overall though not exclusive emphasis is on identity, as the first term of Emerson's metaphysics of identity and flowing or metamorphosis. This metaphysics, or general conception of the nature of reality, is what grounds his epistemology and ethics, as well as his esthetic, religious, and political thought. Acknowledging its primacy enables a general account like this to avoid the anti-realist overemphasis on epistemology and language that has often characterized rehabilitation readings of his philosophy.
After an initial chapter on Emerson's metaphysics, the subsequent chapters devoted to the other branches of his thought also begin with their "necessary foundation" in identity, which is the law of things and the law of mind alike. Perception of identity in metamorphosis is what characterizes the philosopher, the poet, the scientist, the reformer, and the man of faith and virtue. Identity of mind and world is felt in what Emerson calls the moral sentiment. Identity is Emerson's answer to the Sphinx-riddle of life experienced as a puzzling succession of facts and events.
"All serious readers of Emerson’s writings will gain insight from Joseph Urbas’s ‘historical reconstruction’ of Emerson’s bottom-line philosophical commitments. By closely engaging an exceptionally wide breadth of primary material—one simply unseen in previous philosophical interpretations of Emerson—The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson brings to bear the weight of his published and unpublished corpus on the topics of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, esthetics, religion, and politics."
European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: Listening to the "Undersong"
Chapter 1. Metaphysics
Chapter 2. Epistemology
Chapter 3. Ethics
Chapter 4. Esthetics
Chapter 5. Religion
Chapter 6. Politics
Conclusion
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