Introduction: Listening to the "Undersong"
Chapter 1. Metaphysics
Chapter 2. Epistemology
Chapter 3. Ethics
Chapter 4. Esthetics
Chapter 5. Religion
Chapter 6. Politics
Conclusion
Biography
Joseph Urbas teaches American literature and philosophy at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne. He is author of Emerson's Metaphysics: A Song of Laws and Causes (2016) and of a number of articles on American Transcendentalism and philosophy. He is also co-editor of the French edition of Herman Melville in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
"All serious readers of Emerson’s writings will gain insight from Joseph Urbas’s ‘historical reconstruction’ of Emerson’s bottom-line philosophical commitments. By closely engaging an exceptionally wide breadth of primary material—one simply unseen in previous philosophical interpretations of Emerson—The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson brings to bear the weight of his published and unpublished corpus on the topics of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, esthetics, religion, and politics."
European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy
