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Emerson and Other Minds - Idealism and the Moral Self (Paperback)
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Emerson and Other Minds - Idealism and the Moral Self (Paperback)
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In Emerson and Other Minds , Michael J. Colacurcio traces the long
arc of Ralph Waldo Emerson's writings. While Emerson's seldom
argues academically in his essays, he intends the essays to be
primary acts of philosophy. The essays are also highly wrought
literary performances, and so they need to be closely read in the
New Critical manner. Colacurcio proposes that Emerson is one of
modernity's central writers on the question of "privacy": the
unsettling epistemological fact that even though people have the
ability to share through language the experiences that shape their
version of the world, no one else can fully experience another's
process of creating and evaluating the world. Emerson may imagine a
transparent eyeball, but never a universal retina. This ineluctable
privacy underwrites the famous moral doctrine of "self-reliance,"
but it also helps to explain the painful problems of love and
friendship. Colacurcio's close reading results in a two-volume
compilation that reminds us of the importance of encountering and
remembering Emerson for more than his famous sentences. Conversing
with himself and other powerful minds on fundamental questions of
human knowledge and behavior, Emerson produced brilliant
essaysaboth philosophical and literary in the fullest senseathat
are certainly worth reading closely and with new eyes.
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