"Language Must Be Raked": Experience, Race, and the Pressure of Air

Autor/in	Standish, Paul
Titel	"Language Must Be Raked": Experience, Race, and the Pressure of Air
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50 (2018) 4, S.428-440 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2017.1377069
Schlagwörter	Language Usage; English; Moral Values; Writing (Composition); Race; Slavery; Social Values; Personality Traits; Authors; Essays; Politics; History + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachgebrauch; English language; Englisch; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Schreibübung; Rasse; Abstammung; Sklaverei; Sozialer Wert; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Author; Autor; Autorin; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Politik; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung
Abstract	This article begins by clarifying the notion of what Stanley Cavell has called "Emersonian moral perfectionism." It goes on to explore this through close analysis of aspects of Emerson's essay "Experience," in which ideas of trying or attempting or experimenting bring out the intimate relation between perfectionism and styles of writing. "Where do we find ourselves?" Emerson asks, and the answer is to be found in part in what we write and what we say, injecting a new sense of possibility and responsibility into our relation to our words. But the language we speak and the lives that go with it are at the same time burdened with a past, and in the case of English, and in the American context especially, it is marked with a kind of repression relating to questions of slavery and race. These matters are implicated in questions of constitution, in both general and specifically political senses. Hence, inheritance and appropriation become causes of critical sensitivity, as do the forms of praise and acknowledgment that should meet them. The article explores ways of thinking through Emerson's relation to these aspects of experience and seeks to find responses pertinent to today. (As Provided).
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