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Literature in English, North America

2014

Andrew Kopec

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"Emerson, Labor, And Ages Of Turbulence", Andrew Kopec Dec 2013

"Emerson, Labor, And Ages Of Turbulence", Andrew Kopec

Andrew Kopec

This article identifies Ralph Waldo Emerson's notoriously abstract philosophical idealism as a powerful method of economic diagnosis. The essay ends by forging a connection between Emerson's response to crisis in 1837 to our own response in the 21st Century, imagining the importance of risk for literary critics' professional identity.

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