JOURNAL ARTICLE

Tears of Things.

  • Published In: National Review, 2023, v. 75, n. 4. P. 42 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: BAUMANN, PAUL 3 of 3

Abstract

Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives, by Robert D. Richardson (Princeton University Press, 128 pp., $22.95) Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life, by Jonathan Lear (Belknap Press, 176 pp., $29.95) RALPH WALDO EMERSON'S wife Ellen died of tuberculosis when she was 19, a year and four months after marrying her husband, now 27, a junior Unitarian minister. Lear moves agilely among the ideas of such philosophers as Aristotle, Kant, and Wittgenstein while using the insights of psychoanalysis to explore the human drive to create meaning. Richardson, who died in 2020 at the age of 86, was a prize-winning author of capacious intellectual biographies of Emerson, Thoreau (1817-1862), and William James (1842-1910). [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:National Review. 2023/03, Vol. 75, Issue 4, p42
  • Document Type:Product Review
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0028-0038
  • Accession Number:161949023
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