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From self-reliance to that which relies: Emerson and critique as self-criticism
Year: 2019
Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku
Name of source: Educational Philosophy and Theory
Publisher name: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Place: Abingdon
Page from-to: 498-507
Titles:
Language Name Abstract Keywords
cze From self-reliance to that which relies: Emerson and critique as self-criticism How is one to navigate between a thinking grounded in the individual and a claim for communality? In Emerson, this kind of difficulty comes into view in familiar sentences such as Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense.' How does the relationship between the personal and the universal look and function? In this paper, it is argued that Emerson may bring us clarity regarding the difficulties we are facing when it comes to questions about how we are to frame human personality, morality, and knowledge in the field of tension created by distinctions such as private/public, original/conventional, and particular/universal. A crucial thought in this line of reasoning is that that the critical philosophy Emerson pursues is also self-critical. The idea that true critique is self-criticism is then used as a tool to make clear that there's no fundamental gap to be bridged here. The self-critical dimension makes clear the ways in which coming to share a world-learning from one's teachers for example-is a matter of earning (shared) words. Therefore, Emersonian self-cultivation does not stand apart from the cultivation of something shared, but should be seen as a form of path towards a shared world.
eng From self-reliance to that which relies: Emerson and critique as self-criticism How is one to navigate between a thinking grounded in the individual and a claim for communality? In Emerson, this kind of difficulty comes into view in familiar sentences such as Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense.' How does the relationship between the personal and the universal look and function? In this paper, it is argued that Emerson may bring us clarity regarding the difficulties we are facing when it comes to questions about how we are to frame human personality, morality, and knowledge in the field of tension created by distinctions such as private/public, original/conventional, and particular/universal. A crucial thought in this line of reasoning is that that the critical philosophy Emerson pursues is also self-critical. The idea that true critique is self-criticism is then used as a tool to make clear that there's no fundamental gap to be bridged here. The self-critical dimension makes clear the ways in which coming to share a world-learning from one's teachers for example-is a matter of earning (shared) words. Therefore, Emersonian self-cultivation does not stand apart from the cultivation of something shared, but should be seen as a form of path towards a shared world. emerson; critical thinking; exemplarity; teacher student relation

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