Placeholder text
Thinking in Search of a Language
Thinking in Search of a Language
- Default Title
Description
The first half of the book offers a multifaceted interpretation of Emerson's constantly shifting early-modernist thought-"I liked everything by turns and nothing long,¿? he said memorably-and its legacy in American writing. The second half turns to the modernists themselves and the pluralistic and radical-empiricist ways in which they engaged the world philosophically.
Herwig Friedl's broad and deep examination of American thought, which also incorporates the international context and response, illuminates the global significance of the American intellectual tradition. Tying together all of these essays is the persistent question and problem of an adequate language or terminological framework as one kind of interpretive leitmotif. This reflects the fact that Friedl's sensibility is steeped in a cross-pollination of continental and American thought, a combination that recalls-and is as revelatory as-the work of Stanley Cavell.
Product details
Number of Pages:
412
Release Date:
2018-09-20
Publication Date:
2018-09-20
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1501332716
ISBN13:
9781501332715
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
745 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
Currently sold out