Emerson as Philosopher

Richard Gilmore received his Ph. D. in Philosophy from The University of Chicago.  He is the author of Philosophical Health: Wittgenstein’s Method in Philosophical Investigations (Lexington, 1999), Doing Philosophy at the Movies (SUNY, 2005), and Searching for Wisdom in Movies: From the Book of Job to Sublime Conversations (Palgrave, 2017).  He is a Professor of Philosophy at Concordia College (USA). 

1. Introduction: Philosophy of the People.- 2. Nature and Nature.- 3. Emerson and Peirce.- 4. The Crack in Everything: Emerson and Zizek on the Dialectical Nature of Philosophy and the World.- 5. Evolutionary Existentialism of Emerson and Paz.- 6. Postmodern Emerson and the Sorites of Ethical Difference: Emerson and Irigaray.- 7. Emerson and Beauvoir: Seriousness as a Form of Clutching.- 8. Emerson and Heidegger on Thinking.- 9. Emerson and Rorty: Baring and Bearing Reality.- 10. Emerson and Derrida: Traces of Meanings, Genres without Borders.- 11. Emerson and Ta-Nehisi Coates: On the Ideas We Find Ourselves in and on the Way Out.- 12. Conclusion.