This work is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. The sustained effort of 30 years of labour is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and its history.

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Author's Acknowledgements i Editor's Preface ii Author's Introduction ii @toc2:1 Thinking of Emerson 0 2 An Emerson Mood 00 3 The Philosopher in American Life (Toward Thoreau and Emerson) 00 4 Emerson, Coleridge, and Kant (Terms as Conditions) 00 5 Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe) 000 6 Finding as Founding: Taking Steps in Emerson's "Experience" 000 7 Staying the Course 000 8 Aversive Thinking: Emersonian Representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche 000 9 Epilogue 000 10 Hope Against Hope 000 11 A Cover Letter 000 12 What is the Emersonian Event? A Comment on Kateb's Emerson 000 13 Emerson's Constitutional Amending: Reading "Fate" 000 14 What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? 000 15 Henry James Reading Emerson Reading Shakespeare 000 16 Old and New in Emerson and Nietzsche 000 @toc4:Index of Emerson Citations 000 Endnotes 000 Works Cited 000 Selected Works by Stanley Cavell 000 Selected Secondary Bibliography 000 Name and Concept Index 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Criticism and interpretation, Transcendentalism (New England)Philosophy in literature