TY  - CHAP
A1  - Wagner, Ulrike
T1  - Everyday aesthetics and the practice of historical reenactment : revisiting Cavell's Emerson
T2  - Over and over and over again : reenactment strategies in contemporary arts and theory / ed. by Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini ; Cultural Inquiry ; 21
N2  - Throughout his career, Stanley Cavell's subject has been the ordinary: what Ralph Waldo Emerson would call 'the near, the low, the common'. Cavell provides compelling insights into Emerson's efforts to locate philosophy within the flow of everyday life. He examines how Emerson renews common thinking, citations, and fragments from the works of others by means of his 'aversive thinking': his technique of turning writing back upon itself. While taking Cavell's Emerson readings as its point of departure, this essay switches Cavell's philosophical angle for a philological one. I suggest that Emerson's engagement with contemporary debates concerning the historical reading of sacred and secular literature (the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare) formed his own practice of reworking literatures of various origins and recasting aesthetics in major ways.
KW  - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
KW  - Cavell, Stanley
KW  - Historische Kritik
KW  - Historicity
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/67776
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-677763
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-21/wagner_everyday-aesthetics.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-029-9
SN  - 978-3-96558-028-2
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 114
EP  - 120
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -