Everyday aesthetics and the practice of historical reenactment : revisiting Cavell's Emerson
- 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.
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| Author: | Ulrike Wagner |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-677763 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-21/wagner_everyday-aesthetics.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-21_12 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-029-9 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-028-2 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | 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 |
| Publisher: | ICI Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/04/14 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/05/10 |
| Tag: | Historicity |
| GND Keyword: | Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Cavell, Stanley; Historische Kritik |
| Page Number: | 8 |
| First Page: | 114 |
| Last Page: | 120 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 495514721 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| 8 Literatur / 81 Amerikanische Literatur in Englisch / 810 Amerikanische Literatur in Englisch | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
