Rewilding Emerson: The Second Annual PRÉCIS Lecture

Jonathan Weinberg (University of Arizona) will deliver the Second Annual PRÉCIS Lecture in Philosophy and Religion at Princeton University (date tdb). See abstract below:

“Today we mostly encounter Ralph Waldo Emerson's writing on 'inspirational' office or dorm posters, or a sampler on grandma's parlor wall, or the occasional semi-artsy tote bag reading 'The earth laughs in flowers.' My aim in this talk will be to de-familiarize this overly cozy cliche of a greeting card aphorist, and start to acquaint us with the wild intellectual radical that he truly was. After all, there's both a reason the man got himself banned from Harvard for 30 years -- and why a generation later, they would name their Philosophy Department building after him.”