The Thing of the Essay

Plunkett, Erin (2022) The Thing of the Essay. In: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay :. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 68-81. ISBN 9781474486026
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I read the essay’s attitude toward things as a commitment to both receptivity—lingering with things as they are found--and renewal—seeing new possibilities in things. Understanding the essay as an experiment in dwelling with things perhaps helps to motivate the contemporary relevance of the form. Dwelling with things has a visionary potential to see beyond the narrow horizon afforded by the habitual or orthodox, and in times of social and environmental crisis, the need to renew the possibility in things becomes urgent.
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Additional information © 2022. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Edinburgh University Press in The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay in October 2022, available online: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-essay.html
Keywords phenomenology, phenomenology of literature, heidegger, essay studies, subjectivity, thingyness, object-oriented philosophy, philosophy, philosophy, literature and literary theory
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