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This book brings together twelve essays published between 1983 and 2015. They reveal the author's continuing interest in what is argued here to be the central, although subversive and recessive line of thinking in American and western society. This romantic thread is followed mainly from Ralph Waldo Emerson through Emily Dickinson to Martin Heidegger and Stanley Cavell.
Aquest llibre reuneix dotze assajos publicats entre 1983 i 2015, que revelen el continu interès de l'autor en el que s'argumenta ací com la línia de pensament central, encara que subversiva i no dominant, de la societat americana i occidental. Aquest fil romàntic és seguit principalment des de Ralph Waldo Emerson fins a Martin Heidegger i Stanley Cavell, passant per Emily Dickinson.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword
I. EMERSON, DICKINSON, HEIDEGGER
Emily Dickinson, Martin Heidegger and the Poetry of Dread
Heart Is Where the Home Is. Some Reflections on the Line between Wisdom and Knowledge
Emerson? In the Classroom? A Few Considerations on an Emersonian Model of Learning
What the Mirror Sees: Reflection and Wholeness in Emerson and Heidegger
Emily Dickinson’s Epistemological Abstinence
Dickinson, Doubt and the Skeptical Argument: Notes for a Defense of the Unspoken
II. JEWETT, BURROUGHS AND PYNCHON, STEELE
Sarah Orne Jewett and The Country of the Pointed Firs
Language, Control and the Paradigm Shift in the Fiction of William S. Burroughs and Thomas Pynchon
A New Organicism. Language, Form and Flux in Timothy Steele’s “Profils Perdus”
III. BERENGARTEN
An Unexpected European Voice
A Poet for a Time of Need
Manual: All Hands Clapping
