Overcoming the oversoul: Emerson's evolutionary existentialism

Hudson review

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-92

  Fromm, Harold ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/4151381     Document Type: Review

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3. Barbara Packer, "Origin and Authority: Emerson and the Higher Criticism," in Reconstructing American Literary History, ed. by Sacvan Bercovitch (Cambridge, MA, 1986). Unattributed quote in the rest of this section is also from Packer
4. For a more sympathetic account of Kierkegaard, written during the years when Joyce Carol Oates and I were arguing about Emerson, see: Harold Fromm, "Emerson and Kierkegaard: The Problem of Historical Christianity," Massachusetts Review, Vol. IX, No. 4 (Autumn 1968)
5. Rüdiger Safranski, Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil (Cambridge, MA and London, 1998), p. 166
6. See also Harold Fromm, "Wrestling with Heidegger," The Hudson Review, Vol. LI, No. 4 (Winter 1999)
7. John A. T. Robinson, Honest to God (Philadelphia, 1963)
8. In Radical Theology and the Death of God, by Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton. (Indianapolis, New York, Kansas City, 1966)
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10. Chicago and London, 1979
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13. Moncure Daniel Conway, Autobiography, Memories and Experience. (Boston and New York, 1905), vol.1, p. 281
14. Moncure Daniel Conway, Emerson at Home and Abroad (Boston, 1882), pp. 154, 157
15. The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. by Ralph L. Rusk (New York, 1939), vol. 5, p.195
16. University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 3, 1934, pp.474-97
17. The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson (Athens, Georgia and London, 2001), vol. 2, pp. 97-8
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19. For the background to this, see the first part of my essay, "The New Darwinism in the Humanities," in The Hudson Review, Vol. LVI, No. 1 ( Spring 2003)