The Other Emerson

<div>Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most significant figures in nineteenth-century American literature and culture-indeed this collection argues in the history of philosophy. The Other Emerson is a thorough reassessment of the philosophical underpinnings theoretical innovations and ethical and political implications of the prose writings of one of America's most enduring thinkers.</div> <div><br> Considering Emerson first and foremost as a daring and original thinker <i>The Other Emerson</i> focuses on three Emersonian subjects-subjectivity the political and the nature of philosophy-and range in topic from Emerson's relationships to slavery and mourning to his place in the development of Romanticism as reread by contemporary systems theory. It is Emerson's appreciation of truth's instability that link him to the European philosophical tradition.</div> <div><br> Contributors: Eduardo Cadava Princeton U; Sharon Cameron Johns Hopkins U; Russell B. Goodman U of New Mexico; Paul Grimstad Yale U; Eric Keenaghan U at Albany SUNY; Gregg Lambert Syracuse U; Sandra Laugier Université de Picardie Jules Verne; Donald Pease Dartmouth College.</div>