This book brings together twelve essays published between 1983 and 2015. They reveal the author"s continuing interest in what is argued here to be the central, although subversive and recessive line of thinking in American and western society. This romantic thread is followed mainly from Ralph Waldo Emerson through Emily Dickinson to Martin Heidegger and Stanley Cavell. Este libro reú ne doce ensayos publicados entre 1983 y 2015, que revelan el continuo interé s del autor en lo que se argumenta aquí como la lí nea de pensamiento central, aunque subversiva y no dominante, de la sociedad americana y occidental. Este hilo romá ntico es seguido principalmente desde Ralph Waldo Emerson hasta Martin Heidegger y Stanley Cavell, pasando por Emily Dickinson.
