(Hardback)

This book gives the first complete, fully historicized account of Emerson's metaphysics of cause and effect and its foundational position in his philosophy as a whole. Joseph Urbas proposes an intellectual biography of Emerson the metaphysician but also the life-story of a con...

(Paperback)

This book gives the first complete account of Emerson's metaphysics of cause and effect and its position in his philosophy as a whole. Urbas proposes an intellectual biography of Emerson the metaphysician but also the story of a concept synonymous, in the Transcendentalist period, with life itselfthe principle at the origin of all being and change