Overview: Studies Emerson in relation to a wide variety of philosophers including Simone de Beauvoir & Ta-Nehisi Coates.Situates pragmatistm‘s anti-essentialism vis-a-vis postmodernism‘s anti-essentialism.ClariThis book considers the role of postmodernism (skepticism towards metanarratives and anti-essentialism) in Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s philosophy by putting it in conversation with key 20th and 21st century thinkers such as Beauvoir, Coates, Derrida, Paz, Rorty, and Zizek. .Postmodern Emerson. shows how Emersonian skepticism to metanarratives such as sexism, racism, Beauvoiran "serious values,
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