The two essays in this book, first published in 1989, were delivered as two of the 1987 Carpenter Lectures at the University of Chicago. Wittgenstein and Emerson are major influences on and subjects of Cavell's thought, and here he thinks and rethinks of these two intellectual forebears. As the title shows, he finds an important crux for contemplation in Emerson's idea of America.
- ISBN10 0945953003
- ISBN13 9780945953005
- Publish Date 30 December 1994 (first published 21 June 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 136
- Language English