0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets

Buy Now

On Leaving - A Reading in Emerson (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,989
Discovery Miles 19 890
On Leaving - A Reading in Emerson (Hardcover): Branka Arsic

On Leaving - A Reading in Emerson (Hardcover)

Branka Arsic

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R1,989 Discovery Miles 19 890 | Repayment Terms: R186 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

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.

General

Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2010
First published: April 2010
Authors: Branka Arsic
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With printed dust jacket
Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05073-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN: 0-674-05073-8
Barcode: 9780674050730

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Die Singende Hand - Versamelde Gedigte…
Breyten Breytenbach Paperback R399 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430
Gode Van Papier
Cas Vos Paperback R86 Discovery Miles 860
The Craft of La Fontaine
Maya Slater Hardcover R5,541 Discovery Miles 55 410
The Divine - Weeks and Works of…
Josuah Sylvester Hardcover R4,890 Discovery Miles 48 900
Ingrid Jonker - A Poet's Life
Petrovna Metelerkamp Paperback R282 Discovery Miles 2 820
Media Poetry - An International…
Eduardo Kac Paperback R826 Discovery Miles 8 260
Selected Poems
F. R. Scott Hardcover R584 Discovery Miles 5 840
German Poetry from the Beginnings to…
Ingrid Walsoe-Engel Hardcover R4,658 Discovery Miles 46 580
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - With…
J. R. R. Tolkien Hardcover R1,478 Discovery Miles 14 780
The Poetry of Michelangelo - An…
Christopher Ryan Hardcover R6,190 Discovery Miles 61 900
RubA!iyA!t of Omar KhayyA!m: Rendered…
Omar Khayyam Paperback R427 Discovery Miles 4 270
A Memoir of Ted Hughes
Nathaniel Minton Paperback R138 Discovery Miles 1 380

See more

Partners