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The work of trauma: Fuller, Douglass, and Emerson on the border of ridicule.(Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20020322
Author:Zwarg, Christina

   M[argaret Fuller] to C[aroline Sturgis]. "I could not but laugh at your 
   catalogue of things you must not have--nothing striped, diamonded, or 
   (above all things) square. That is driving me to close quarters, I think." 
   Dualism. I see but one key to the mysteries of the human condition, but one 
   solution to the old knot of Fate, Freedom, & fore-knowledge;--the 
   propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. 
 
   --A page from Emerson's journal

JACQUES DERRIDA VISITED VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY IN 1994 FOR A PLENARY discussion of his Specters of Marx. Redressing those ...

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The work of trauma: Fuller, Douglass, and Emerson on the border of ridicule.(Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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