Thinking in Search of a Language (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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In Thinking in Search of a Language one of the leading Americanists of his generation, Herwig Friedl, explores the American literary and philosophical traditions, and their intimate connections, by focusing on two defining moments in American intellectual history. The first half of the book offers a multi-faceted 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, both philosophically and in the form of literary experimentation.

In this sweeping look at American thought, the international context of and response to the thinkers and writers discussed firmly establishes the role of American thinking as an international, global phenomenon of major significance. In all of these essays, Friedl poses questions and themes as one kind of interpretive leitmotif, reflecting the fact that his 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.