Emerson`s Life in Science The Culture of Truth
- Ithaca, New York Cornell University Press 2003
- 280p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. The sphinx at the Crossroads .........4 The sun of science ..................4 The culture of truth .............13 Metaphor: Towards a poetics of Science .........22 2. Converting the world : Knowledge, science, power ..........33 The representative scholar: Emerson and bacon..............33 Nature: The art of God .............42 Reading science ..............42 3. Gnomic Science: The body and law .........68 The light of the Eye: Emerson`s Early career .............68 The Future at the Bottom of the Heart: The early science lectures and nature .............84 The anatomy of Truth: Emerson`s Ecstatic Science ................105 4. Global Polarity and the single life .............127 One plus one equals one ..............127 Polar coordinates : Kant to Guyot..................128 The mind goes antagonizing on : Polarity in Emerson ................143 5. Truth Against the world ........166 From vesicle to cosmos: Theories of Evolution ........166 The dilemma of Race ..............176 Quetelet Fate ..............187 6. The solar eye of Science .........199 Where there is light there will be eyes ..............199 Emerson and the Culture of Truth ................203