Emerson and Other Minds

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Idealism and the Practical Reason1 Soul, Mind, Self, LawSome Notes on the One and the Many2 "Skull at our Banquet"The Subject and the Object of Love3 Faculties and VirtuesWhat Happened to "Holiness"?4 Circles and SurvivalsClosure in a World without End5 Signs and Village SymbolsPoetry as a Social Fact6 Consciousness and AscriptionThe Scandal of the Subject7 From Homage to Self-ComposureCharacter, Manners, and the Gift to Not Give8 Second NatureFrom Woodsy Scenes to Caucuses9 Reference and MeaningReason, Logic, and the Problem of PersonsPart 2. After Ethics10 Exempla HumanorumPossibility in the Place of Heroism11 Race, People, NationThe Soul’s Extreme Tuition12 Double Consciousness Nature, Inside and Out13 Educating the SemigodSelf-Culture without Narcissism14 The Higher EducationWorship, Wisdom, and the Endurance of Beauty15 "Our Conversation with Nature"Emerson’s Cave and Plato’s "Allegory"Epilogue: Solitude and Society, Philosophy and Literature