David LaRocca is the author or editor of several books from Bloomsbury, including Emerson’s English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor, Estimating Emerson: An Anthology of Criticism from Carlyle to Cavell, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Transcendental Thought: From Antiquity to the Anthropocene, and The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century After The World Viewed, and author or editor of a half-dozen other volumes. He has taught philosophy, rhetoric, and cinema, and held visiting research or teaching positions in the United States at Binghamton, Cornell, Cortland, Harvard, Ithaca College, and Vanderbilt