Why Forgive Carlyle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370610 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisa Tamarkin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 134 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-92 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2016.134.1.64 |
| OpenAlex | W2406846263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay discusses the troubled relationships, both intellectual and intimate, of nineteenth-century essayist Thomas Carlyle to understand why Ralph Waldo Emerson and other contemporaries decide to forgive him, while despising his ideas. Coming to terms with the intensity of their affection was also to admit that their forgiveness was inappropriate to their principles and beliefs. Thinking through forgiveness as a kind of convexity, or dispersal of focus, the essay asks what it means to object, but love anyway, and what the challenge of forgiving Carlyle says about the logic, and the relevance, of their judgments
Aesthetics · Affection · Epistemology · Forgiveness · Linguistics · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |