Lost series are a polysemic series which, to that end, mobilises the surplus of homonymy. Many protagonists have the same surname as historical figures, which raises the issue of utopia and ideal society. However, the main antagonist constantly pushed back in the series from the 2 to the 5 season, B...

former unitarian pastor, Ralph Waldo Emerson treats proche-Oriental Antiquity as a corpus of texts (the biblique canon); in his view, it was part of a hermeneutical survey, inextricably linked to a thorough reflection on the nature and challenges of writing and reading. Inherited from Christian theo...

Criticism rarely portraits Plath as a nature poet, but landscapes occur regularly throughout her work. Her exploration of the relationship between the individual and the natural world is fundamental to the development of her mature voice. This development reveals the continuing influence of the Amer...

By reviewing the critical literature on Melville and Transcendentalism and then undertaking a close reading of Moby-Dick (1851), this paper argues that the novel reflects, among other things, an ongoing debate between the novelist and Transcendentalist philosophy. While in later works, Melville seem...

One of the major themes of discussion in the art and especially the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries was the body rather than the soul. In the beginning this seemed to be the case mostly because of the natural processes related to the transforming events of maturation and death of the human...

Issue 10 of NANO: New American Notes Online explores originality in a digital culture through the lenses of Pinterest, Instagram, theatre, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Virality, poetic borrowing, the rip-and-burn industry, copying, repurposing, and reusing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson in Europe : class, race and revolution in the making of an American thinker / Daniel Koch. London : I. B. Tauris & Co, 2012.

Do you enjoy traveling? Probably there is no person with a negative response. Some of travellers are fast collectors of famous places, while others are just observers of culture and lifestyle. The third ones simply lost in tourism gaining popularity on social networks, while some like to travel on a...

American philosophical significance in the middle of the 19th century is the first philosophical movement of American raigambre. Influenced by individualism and the Unitary Church, this movement develops a particular way of understanding the union between human beings, God and nature. As human being...

The essay explores multiple senses of “true,” arguing that truth not only has a performative sense, but that certain performances can themselves be true as when a friend is a true friend. Taking that thought in a metaphilosophical direction, the essay also argues that writing can be true to philosop...

The article discusses Stanley Cavell’s interpretation of Ralph Waldo Emerson with a focus on the concepts of individuality, self-acknowledgment, and Bildung as one’s education through reading, called “the education of grownups”. Beginning with Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance”, his critique of Descart...

Ancien pasteur unitarien, Ralph Waldo Emerson assimile l’Antiquité proche-orientale à un corpus de textes (le canon biblique) ; pour lui, elle relève d’une enquête herméneutique, indissociable d’une réflexion poussée sur la nature et les enjeux de l’écriture et de la lecture. Héritée de la théologie...

These pages aim to explore the big fortune of the forgotten film Dante’s Inferno directed in 1924 by Henry Otto, and to underline how it is influenced on one side by the peculiar dantism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and on the other by the populist sentimentalism of Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol.

Summary The author analyses the theme of the ordinary as it is developed by transatlantic routes and returns, from the American transcendantalism. Although the idea of knowledge, ordinary belief or ordinary man plays an important role in the philosophical tradition, especially empirist, the idea of...

“Experience” is a concept paradoxically deployed to accentuate the aconceptual. Although thinking, knowing, reflecting, and analyzing are kinds of experiences, invocations of “experience” typically direct our attention to what is immediate, embodied, unrepresented, unthought, even unthinkable. And y...

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With the idea that New England designates less a region or territory with clearly defined borders than it is a political project with changing forms, this book analyses the predominant role played by literature, not only as an intellectual output to emancipate from the European cultural model, but a...

International audience New England has too long monopolized the attention of regionalist writers and critics alike, and we do not intend to take it once again as the major representative of a literary genre that flourished towards the close of the century, even as the region’s political impress upon...

” There is no question, in a few pages, of reporting on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work, or of the recent developments that led to the rediscovery of his work. We have therefore chosen to confine ourselves to certain philosophical approaches of a thinker known to be “inap-prochable” and to look for what...

In 1964 the American professor Leo Marx published his fundamental essay entitled The machine in the garden : technology and the pastoral ideal in America. Fifty years after its first edition is very interesting return on the relevance of this text, emphasizing on the one hand its obvious value but,...

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Relevant studies are starting to open up the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to whom John Dewey once referred as the ‘Film of Democracy’, to social and political readings. This article seeks to promote the strength and potential of this new emersonianism for the philosophy of education by showing how t...

Antebellum American literature, like the country itself, was a heterogeny of Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and political prose culminating in the national narrative. Authors during this time struggled with the issue of slavery and their works reflected varying degrees of disdain for it and its tre...