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Was reading "the transcendentalist" today. boy, he can be a fiery one.

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Friday, 28 October 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

but, ya know, whatever

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

I've been told to read an Emerson essay about poetry, or possibly about neologisms, or both. I think it was Emerson. But actually I haven't read any yet.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

his essay "Experience" is probably my favorite single thing ever written by anyone.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

Stanley Cavell's work on Emerson is pretty interesting, but it's more useful for pushing you towards your own encounters with emerson than really saying anything definitive about his work though.

"Fate" is also excellent. More people should read Emerson and take him seriously. He is an excellent philosopher, in the same vein as Heidegger, Nietzsche, or Derrida, but precedes them all of course. his work never fails to move me.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

He's helped me through some very difficult times.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

It's hard for me to take a lot of things Emerson writes seriously as metaphysics, but as literature, he is quite interesting to read. I like his journals.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

"Every word is fossilized poetry," or something like that. "A weed is just an herb whose virtues have yet to be discovered." Memorable, although not memorable enough that I am remotely confident I am quoting him exactly.

I can't take him seriously as a philosopher though.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

that's precisely the reason Cavell's work is so important! He reads essays like "Experience" and "Fate" as encounters with Kant, and more specifically skepticism. Those essays are some of the best philosophical texts I have read.

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 5 November 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

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