Abstract

I. Recognition. Drawing the Circle The metaphor of the circle is here taken into account as a typifying image of the Emersonian moral. In this paper I shall attempt to provide an explanatory synthesis of the concept of “circle,” in its acceptation as “the outlined,” “path,” “itinerary.” The circle will be not investigated as a mere geometrical figure, but as a condition of motion, an occasion of processuality. It will be presented as a route which unravels itself before the subject’s eyes and...