Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism:The Carus Lectures, 1988 by Stanley Cavell

Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism:The Carus Lectures, 1988

Stanley Cavell

163 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative medium-paced

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In these three lectures, Cavell situates Emerson at an intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy shun one another; where the cultures of America a...

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