Essay in honor of Richard Poirier (1925-2009). A re-reading of Emerson's "Nature," focussed, in particular, on the most famous "transparent eyeball" passage. Following some of Poirier’s critical preoccupations from the 1960s to roughly 2000, the essay addresses Emerson's first book by way of reopening the question of a romantic "philosophy of life," as Emerson called it in "The American Scholar," within a larger Transatlantic context. In so doing, it revisits "certain images of American romantic idealism" (Poirier) through the intellectual problematics of idealism itself.
The Messiah of Nature: Transatlantic Idealism and the Early Emerson
NORI, Giuseppe
2010-01-01
Abstract
Essay in honor of Richard Poirier (1925-2009). A re-reading of Emerson's "Nature," focussed, in particular, on the most famous "transparent eyeball" passage. Following some of Poirier’s critical preoccupations from the 1960s to roughly 2000, the essay addresses Emerson's first book by way of reopening the question of a romantic "philosophy of life," as Emerson called it in "The American Scholar," within a larger Transatlantic context. In so doing, it revisits "certain images of American romantic idealism" (Poirier) through the intellectual problematics of idealism itself.File in questo prodotto:
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