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Emerson's Literary Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Emerson's Literary Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book situates Ralph Waldo Emerson in the tradition of
philosophy as "spiritual exercise", arguing that the defining
feature of his literary philosophy is the conviction that there is
an inherent link between moral persuasion and literary excellence.
Hosseini persuasively argues that the Emersonian project can be
viewed as an extension of Socrates' call for a return to the
beginning of philosophy, to search for a way of revolutionizing our
ways of seeing from within. Examining Emerson's provocative style
of writing, Hosseini contends that his prose is shaped by a desire
to bring about psychagogia, or influencing the soul through the
power of words. This book furthermore examines the evolving nature
of Emerson's thoughts on "scholarly action" and its implications,
his religious temperament as an aesthetic experience of the world
through wonder, and the reasons for a resounding acknowledgment of
despair in his essay "Experience." In the concluding chapter,
Hosseini explores the depth of Emerson's engagement with the
classical Persian poets and argues that what we may call his
"literary humanism" is informed by Persian Adab, exemplified in the
writings of Rumi, Hafiz, and Saadi. Weaving together themes from
Persian philosophy and Emersonian transcendentalism, Hosseini
establishes Emerson's way of seeing as refreshingly relevant,
showing that the questions he tackled in his writings are as
pressing today as they were in his time.
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