Out of Earshot of the School: Tocqueville and the “American Philosophical Method"

In Andrew Taylor & Áine Kelly (eds.), Stanley Cavell, Literature and Film: the Idea of America. Routledge. pp. pp. 132-157 (2012)
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This piece examines the 'American philosophical method' as outlined by Tocqueville in the second volume of his 'Democracy in America', and compares it to Emerson's essays via Adorno's 'Essay as Form'. In particular, it looks at how the American way of life, as described by Tocqueville, follows the Cartesian path laid out in Descartes' 'Discourse on Method', and how this relates to Cavell's reading of Emerson as both an inheritor and objector to Cartesianism.

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