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Emerson, the philosopher of oppositions / Russell B. Goodman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, Russell B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Philosophy.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
- Opposition, Theory of.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Ralph Waldo Emerson developed a metaphysics of process, an epistemology of moods, and an 'existentialist' ethics of self-improvement, drawing on sources including Neoplatonism, Kantianism, Hinduism, and the skepticism of Montaigne. In this book, Russell B. Goodman demonstrates how Emerson's essays embody oppositions – one and many, fixed and flowing, nominalism and realism – and argues, in tracing Emerson's main positions, that we miss the living nature of his philosophy unless we take account of the motions and patterns of his essays and the ways in which instability, spontaneity, and inconsistency are dramatized within them. Goodman presents Emerson as a philosopher in conversation with Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, William James, Wittgenstein, and Cavell. He finds a variety of skepticisms in Emerson's work – about friendship, language, freedom, and the world's existence – but also an acknowledgement of skepticism as a 'wise' form of life"-- Cambridge Core.
- Contents:
- Emerson’s philosophical style
- Varieties of skepticism in Emerson’s thought
- Emerson and skepticism : a reading of “Friendship”
- Paths of coherence through Emerson’s philosophy : the case of “Nominalist and Realist”
- Emerson, Montaigne, skepticism
- Reading “Manners”
- Emerson’s “Experience” and Plato’s Republic
- On “The Poet”
- Emerson’s natures
- Emerson and Hinduism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed December 15, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Goodman, Russell B. Emerson, the philosopher of oppositions
- ISBN:
- 9781009604598
- 1009604597
- 9781009604604
- 1009604600
- OCLC:
- 1515121197
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000293612
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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