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On Leaving - A Reading in Emerson (Hardcover)
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On Leaving - A Reading in Emerson (Hardcover)
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In his essay "Compensation," Emerson makes a surprising claim:
"Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole
system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as
the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case, because
it no longer admits of its growth, and slowly forms a new house."
Branka Arsic unpacks Emerson's repeated assertion that our reality
and our minds are in constant flux. Arsic's readings of a broad
range of Emerson's writings-the Early Lectures, Journals and
Notebooks, and later lectures-are guided by a central question:
what does it really mean to maintain that everything fluctuates, is
relational, and so changes its identity? Reading Emerson through
this lens, Arsic asks: How is the leaving of one's own
consciousness actually to be performed? What kind of relationship
is predicated on the necessity of leaving? What does it mean for
our system of values, our ethics and our political allegiances, and
even our personal identities to be on the move? The bold new
understanding of Emerson that results redefines inherited concepts
of the Emersonian individual as all-composed, willful,
appropriative, and self-reliant. In its place, Arsic reveals an
Emersonian individual whose ideal being is founded in mutability.
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