Emerson's Literary Philosophy

Preface
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
1: Introduction
	Overview of Chapters
	References
2: Socrates and Emerson on Areté
	Introduction
	Two Narratives on Socratic Method
	The Areté of Self-Reliance
	Symposium or Philosophy as a Form of Erōs
	References
3: The Question of Style
	Introduction
	Two Interpretations of Emerson’s Fragmentary Style
	Like Discovering Ice or Fire: The Emerson Effect
	References
4: The “Pale Scholar”
	Introduction
	The Ideal of Sturdy Scholar
	A Revolution Begins with a Thought That We Have
	Dethroned Emperors in “Montaigne”: Is Philosophy at Risk?
	References
5: Religious Gestures and Secular Strengths
	Introduction
	Naturalizing Transcendence in Emerson’s Works
	Nagel on the Religious Temperament
	Kateb and the “Problem” of Emerson’s Religiousness
	References
6: Experience
	Introduction
	From Transcendence to “Shabby Experiences”
	Reading “Experience” in Carver Country
	Carver and Strategy of Omission
	Poiēsis of Patience
	References
7: Emerson’s Literary Humanism: The Persian Connection
	Introduction
	Rumi’s Wajd and Emerson’s Ecstasy Reviewed
	Emerson and the Joy of De-mystifying Hafiz
	“A Cheerful Intelligent Face”: Saadi and Emerson on the Conduct of Life
	Thinking of Emerson on a Night Train to Shiraz
	References
Bibliography
Index