Experience
In this chapter, I focus on a less developed aspect of Emerson’s philosophy and argue that his writing was as much defined by an ecstatic vision of life as it was marked by the reality of what he calls “shabby experience.” No account of Emerson’s philosop
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Emerson’s Literary Philosophy “Positioning Emerson within both ancient and contemporary philosophical traditions, this study goes far in revealing the great nineteenth-century American thinker’s significance in his own time and often refreshingly in his own words. From his Platonic and even Persian underpinnings to his relevance to analytic philosophy, his ideas as well as the rhetoric used to express them demonstrate how and why his way of thinking about the world in both theory and practice continues to warrant such close attention.” —Roger Sedarat, Queens College, City University of New York, Author of Emerson in Iran: The American Appropriation of Persian Poetry “Reza Hosseini offers a formidable yet intimately rendered report on the relationship between philosophy and literature as expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson. With a keen perception of the ancient Greek and medieval Persian influences on our writer—especially attributes of moral fervor and poetic intensity—Hosseini draws us into illuminating conversations with a bountiful range of contemporary scholarship: from Pierre Hadot and Alasdair MacIntyre on philosophy as a way of life to Thomas Nagel and George Kateb on the secular and the religious, and, as interpreted by Martha Nussbaum and Stanley Cavell, literature’s claims to philosophy, and vice versa. In addition to a surprise and satisfying analysis of Raymond Carver’s sense of ordinary language as it intersects with Emerson’s prose, Hosseini’s engagement with the Persian literary humanists (Rumi, Hafiz, and Saadi) makes for a memorable transnational appreciation of Emerson’s capacious contributions to philosophy—how it is written and how it is lived.” —David LaRocca, Cornell University, Author of On Emerson and Emerson’s English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor and editor of Estimating Emerson: An Anthology of Criticism from Carlyle to Cavell
Reza Hosseini
Emerson’s Literary Philosophy
Reza Hosseini School of Social Science The Independent Institute of Education, MSA Johannesburg, South Africa
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