On leaving
Subtitle: a reading in Emerson
By: Branka Arsić.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674050730
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: In the mode of water; title: Part I: Leave-takings; title: Standing still; title: Habit; title: Custom; title: Center; title: Living room; title: Child at the philosopher's table; title: Points of departure; title: Skepticism and after dinner thinking; title: Danger and city walks: modernity; title: Gaze and glance : pretty women passing by Kant, Emerson andBaudelaire; title: Touch and labor : doctrine of the hands; title: Recollection and attraction : the sea-shell; title: Part II: Journeying; title: Nocturnal outings : dreaming; title: Keys, beasts and dreams; title: Dreamed trajectories; title: The sleeper and the dreamer; title: Solitude, dreaming and the poiesis of the ethical; title: Mourning and happiness; title: Reading; title: A dream; title: Brain walks : thinking; title: Moods; title: Involuntary perceptions; title: Medial personalities; title: Intuiting or thinking as remembering; title: Entering the valleys of the brain : reflection; title: Silent constructions; title: Emerson's brain; title: Archaeology of roses : loving; title: Architecture of leaving; title: Loving, to be swept away; title: Elective affinities : natural history of love; title: Friendship : welcoming the strange; title: Conversational turnovers; title: The law of one to one : confession and secret; title: On roses; title: Part III: Dwelling; title: The art of staying; title: Marriage : tactics of the observer; title: The dead : urns and the ethics of burials; title: The living : sickness and self-healing; title: Eating : the culture of table talk and the leakers; title: Abiding on the earth; title: Terrestrial borders; title: Laws; title: Violence; title: Removals; title: Origin of strawberries : the cherokee cosmogony.