Emerson's Transcendental Etudes

This book is Stanley Cavell8217s definitive expression on Emerson. Over thepast thirty years Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic andprovocative... » 

This book is Stanley Cavell8217s definitive expression on Emerson. Over thepast thirty years Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic andprovocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. Thesustained effort of that labor is drawn together here for the first time into asingle volume which also contains two previously unpublished essays and anintroduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and the history of itsemergence. Students and scholars working in philosophy literature Americanstudies history film studies and political theory can now more easily accessCavell8217s luminous and enduring work on Emerson. Such engagement should befurther complemented by extensive indices and annotations. If we are still indoubt whether America has expressed itself philosophically there is perhaps nobetter space for inquiry than reading Cavell reading Emerson. «