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In quest of the ordinary : lines of skepticism and romanticism

Print Book, English, 1988
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 200 pages ; 24 cm
9780226098173, 9780226098180, 0226098176, 0226098184
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At Berkeley The Mrs. Williams Beckman Lectures (1983)
The Philosopher in American Life (Toward Thoreau and Emerson)
Emerson, Coleridge, Kant (Terms as Conditions)
Texts of Recovery (Coleridge, Wordsworth, Heidegger ...) Recounting Gains, Showing Losses (A Reading of The Winter's Tale)
At Stanford Conference: Reconstructing Individualism (1984)
Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe)
Postscripts
A. Skepticism and a Word concerning Deconstruction
B. Poe's Perversity and the Imp (ulse) of Skepticism
C. The Skeptical and the Metaphorical
At Stanford The Tanner Lecture (1986)
The Uncanniness of the Ordinary
At Vienna Celebratory Lecture (1986)
The Fantastic of Philosophy