Ebook: American Metempsychosis: Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry

American Metempsychosis explores the ancient concept of metempsychosis as a precursor to the idea of history. In the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, metempsychosis serves as a form of American self-knowing – the effort to reshape identity through a self’s heightened awareness of its own cognitive succession.