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In part of a discarded draft of Ecce Homo (1888–9), Nietzsche had the following to say of Emerson:
Emerson with his essays has been a good friend and cheered me up even in black periods: he contains so much skepsis, so many possibilities that even virtue achieves esprit in his writings. A unique case! Even as a boy I enjoyed listening to him.1
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Nietzsche, “Appendix: Variations From Nietzsche’s Drafts,” trans. Walter Kaufmann, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, trans., ed., and comm. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Modern Library, 1966), 795.
See George J. Stack, Emerson and Nietzsche: An Elective Affinity (Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 1992); and Michael Lopez, Emerson and Power: Creative Antagonism in the Nineteenth Century (Dekalb: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1996). See also a recent special issue of ESQ (43:1–4 [1997]), edited by Lopez, dedicated entirely to the Emerson/Nietzsche connection.
Sir Karl Popper, Of Clouds and Clocks, quoted in Max H. Fisch, Max H. Peirce, Semeiotic, and Pragmatism: Essays by Max H. Fisch, eds. Kenneth Laine Ketner and Christian J.W. Kloesel (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1986), 426.
Charles Sanders Peirce, Values in a Universe of Chance: Selected Writings of Charles Sanders Peirce (Garden City, NY: Doublday, 1958), 148.
Peirce, “The Doctrine of Necessity,” quoted in Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers, Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature (New York: Bantam, 1984), 302–3.
Peirce, Values in a Universe of Chance, 149; 156–9; Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979), 64, 127, 145–86.
William James, The Principles of Psychology (New York: Dover, 1950), 254.
William Joseph Gavin, William James and the Reinstatement of the Vague (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1992), 1.
James, A Pluralistic Universe (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977), 212–3.
Richard Poirier, Poetry and Pragmatism (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992), 129–68.
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Wilson, E. (2000). Conclusion: Clouds Over the Ocean. In: Romantic Turbulence. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62679-3_7
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