Language must be raked’
Experience, race, and the pressure of air
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8858261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Standish (0000-0003-0875-0191, Centre for Philosophy of Education, UCL Institute of Education , London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 428-440 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131857.2017.1377069 |
| OpenAlex | W2755565538 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article begins by clarifying the notion of what Stanley Cavell has called ‘Emersonian moral perfectionism.’ It goes on to explore this through close analysis of aspects of Emerson’s essay ‘Experience,’ in which ideas of trying or attempting or experimenting bring out the intimate relation between perfectionism and styles of writing. ‘Where do we find ourselves?’ Emerson asks, and the answer is to be found in part in what we write and what we say, injecting a new sense of possibility and responsibility into our relation to our words. But the language we speak and the lives that go with it are at the same time burdened with a past, and in the case of English, and in the American context especially, it is marked with a kind of repression relating to questions of slavery and race. These matters are implicated in questions of constitution, in both general and specifically political senses. The article explores ways of thinking through Emerson’s relation to these aspects of experience and seeks to find responses pertinent to today
Appropriation · Constitution · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Perfectionism (psychology · Political science · Politics · Praise · Race (biology · Relation (database · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |