Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, Harvard University. Author, Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969, Cambridge University Press, 1976); The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (The Viking Press, 1971 & Harvard University Press, 1979 (enlarged edition)); The Senses of Walden: An Expanded Edition. (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981 & University of Chicago Press, 1992); The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979); Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. (Harvard University Press, 1981;); Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes (North Point Press, 1984 & University of Chicago Press, 1988); Disowning Knowledge: In Six Plays of Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press, 1987); In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism (University of Chicago Press, 1988); This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein (Albuquerque, NM: Living Batch Press, 1979 & Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989); Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism (University of Chicago Press, 1990); A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises (Harvard University Press, 1994); Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida.: (Blackwell, 1995); Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman (University of Chicago Press, 1996). Emerson's Transcendental Etudes, ed. David Justin Hodge (Stanford University Press, 2003); Cities of Words, Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life, (Harvard University Press, 2004).

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Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department, University of New Mexico. Author, Wittgenstein and William James (Cambridge, 2002), American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition (Cambridge, 1990), "Moral Perfectionism and Democracy in Emerson and Nietzsche," ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 1997, 159-80; "The Colors of the Spirit: Emerson and Thoreau on Nature and the Self," in Nature in American Philosophy, ed. Jean De Groot and Kurt Pritzl, Catholic University of America Press (forthcoming); "Emerson's Mystical Empiricism," in The Perennial Tradition of Neoplatonism, ed. John J. Cleary, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1997, 456-78; "Emerson the European and Heidegger the American," in American and European National Identities: Faces in the Mirror, ed. Stephen Fender, Keele University Press, 1996, 111-25; Pragmatism: A Contemporary Reader (Routledge, 1995); "East-West Philosophy in Nineteenth Century America: Emerson and Hinduism," Journal of the History of Ideas, 1990, 625-45; "How a Thing is Said and Heard: Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard," History of Philosophy Quarterly, 3:3, 1986, 335-353; Contending with Stanley Cavell (Oxford University Press, 2004); Pragmatism: Critical Concepts (Routledge, forthcoming).
 
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  William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain (Duke, 2000), Choosing Not Choosing: Dickinson’s Fascicles (Chicago, 1993), Thinking in Henry James (Chicago, 1991), Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau’s JOURNAL (Oxford, 1985), The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne (Johns Hopkins, 1981) and Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre (Johns Hopkins, 1979). She has also published papers in Critical Inquiry, Representations, PMLA, and ELH. Professor Cameron is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been awarded Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
 
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  Professor of English, UCLA. Author of Emerson's Fall: A New Interpretation of the Major Essays (New York: Continuum, 1982); "The Transcendentalists" in The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 2, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch (Cambridge University Press, 1994, 332-604); "American Verse Traditions, 1800-1855," in The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 4, 11-145; "Historical Introduction" to The Conduct of Life, in the Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University Press, 2003), xv-lxvii; "Emerson" in The Columbia History of American Literature, ed. Emory Elliot (Columbia University Press, 1988), 381-98. She is an Editorial Board Member of ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance and American Literary History, and recipient of the Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award at UCLA.
 
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