Emerson as philosopher : postmodernism and beyond / Richard Gilmore.
Gilmore, Richard Allen, 1959-
2023
B831.2 .G55 2023
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Title Emerson as philosopher : postmodernism and beyond / Richard Gilmore.
Author Gilmore, Richard Allen, 1959-
ISBN 9783031325465 (electronic bk.)
303132546X (electronic bk.)
3031325451
9783031325458
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32546-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-32546-5 doi
Call Number B831.2 .G55 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 149/.97
Summary This book considers the role of postmodernism (skepticism towards metanarratives and anti-essentialism) in Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy by putting it in conversation with key 20th and 21st century thinkers such as Beauvoir, Coates, Derrida, Paz, Rorty, and Zizek. Postmodern Emerson shows how Emersonian skepticism to metanarratives such as sexism, racism, Beauvoiran "serious values," and others, can help us face some of society's gravest contemporary social and philosophical challenges. Methodologically, the book exemplifies Emersonian postmodernism by defying traditional philosophical metanarratives about the difference between high and low culture or serious and ridiculous subjects, and Emerson with what would seem to be his opposite. This is itself a postmodern gesture, breaking rules of genre and topic to make unlikely but interesting connections. Above all, this book proves that in this time of social division and widespread despair, Emerson can help.
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Intro
Preface
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Philosophy as Thinking
Emerson's Method
My Method
Part I: Emerson as Philosopher
Chapter 2: Emerson as Philosopher
Chapter 3: Emerson on Thinking via Peirce and Beauvoir
Emerson and the Comic
Emerson and Beauvoir's Serious Man
Why Anyone's Oppression Oppresses Me
Ambiguities of 'Seriousness'
Emerson and Frost: Seriousness and Humor
Grievances and Griefs
Chapter 4: Philosophy of the People
Part II: Postmodern Emerson
Chapter 5: Postmodern Emerson

Emerson and Rorty: A Reading of Postmodern Philosophy
Emersonian Hermeneutics
Emerson and Deleuze and Guattari: BwO's
Zizek and the OwB
Part III: Emerson and...
Chapter 6: Emerson and Zizek : On the Crack in Everything, or, the Dialectical Nature of Philosophy and the World
The Handsome Absolute
Response to a Possible Objection
Real Ideas, the Kafkaesque, and Resistentialism
Chapter 7: Emerson and Paz: Evolutionary Existentialism
Dialectics of Waking and Sleeping: Labyrinths and Fiestas
Silence and Language
Inspiration as Collaboration as Thinking

Chapter 8: Emerson and Irigaray: The Sorites of Ethical Difference
Ironic Sex, Active Sex
The Labyrinth of Solitude of Sexual Difference: Irigaray on Nietzsche and Ariadne
Chapter 9: Emerson and Derrida: On the Track of the Circle Trace
Derrida on Exergue and Parergon
Chapter 10: Emerson and Heidegger: Thinking as Thanking
Chapter 11: Conclusion: A Brief Reading of "Fate": Thinking about "Fate" after Cavell, Bloom, and Rorty
From tertium non datur to tertium datur
Index

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