The Life of Emerson

Matthiessen, F. O.; Brooks, Van Wyck

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What's the Moon And The Barley For? Naturalizing Transcendence In Emerson's Work1

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“…A defining feature of Emerson's philosophy of life was to share a way of experiencing life best described in his definition of ecstasy as the excess of life. Noting the centrality of this experience in Emerson writings, F. O. Matthiessen writes: ‘the first and recurrent upsurge of his conviction was that “life is an ecstasy”, that the moment was an almost unbelievable miracle, which he wanted, more than anything else, to catch and to record’ (Matthiessen (2013), 441). On the whole, understanding Emerson entails understanding what he means by the excess of life in his writings.…”

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Religious gestures and secular strengths: Emerson, Nagel, and Kateb on the religious temperament

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2019

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What would happen to the reception of Emerson if one does not share his religious sentiments? I argue that appreciating Emerson does not depend upon sharing a similar attitude towards religion not only because we can discern a secular sense of wonder in his writings, as George Kateb claims, but also because his literary excellence shows us ways of wonder in the first place. Further, I show that though there is a brief exchange of similar ideas between Emerson and Thomas Nagel in the latter's engagement of ‘the religious temperament’, their responses to what they call the tremendousness of existence is fundamentally different.

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Religious gestures and secular strengths: Emerson, Nagel, and Kateb on the religious temperament

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2019

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Religious gestures and secular strengths: Emerson, Nagel, and Kateb on the religious temperament

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