Herwig Friedl

Thinking in Search of a Language (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on American Intellect and Intuition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Thinking in Search of a Language explores American literary and philosophical traditions, and their intimate connections, by focusing on two defining strands in the intellectual history of the United States.

The first half of the book offers a multifaceted interpretation of Emerson's constantly shifting early-modernist thought-"I liked everything by turns and nothing long," he said memorably-and its legacy in American writing. The second half turns to the modernists themselves and the pluralistic and radical-empiricist ways in which they engaged the world philosophically.

Herwig Friedl's broad and deep examination of American thought, which also incorporates the international context and response, illuminates the global significance of the American intellectual tradition. Tying together all of these essays is the persistent question and problem of an adequate language or terminological framework as one kind of interpretive leitmotif. This reflects the fact that Friedl's sensibility is steeped in a cross-pollination of continental and American thought, a combination that recalls-and is as revelatory as-the work of Stanley Cavell.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501332722
• Artikelnr.: 54786717

Autorenporträt

Herwig Friedl is Professor Emeritus of American Literature and History of Ideas at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied American and German Literatures and Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and at Cornell University; he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale in 1973/4, a Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico in 1984 and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard in 2002, 2006, and 2007. His book publications include a study of Henry James' aesthetic theory (1972) and, as editor, essay collections on E.L. Doctorow (1986), on Women Studies as Cultural Studies (2000), and on gender and conceptions of space (2006). His numerous essays focus on Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, Modernism, and on American thinking in an international context.