Emerge carrying infant close to genial philosopher (9)
I believe the answer is:
aristotle
'philosopher' is the definition.
(Aristotle is an example)
'emerge carrying infant close to genial' is the wordplay.
'emerge' becomes 'arise' (I've seen this before).
'carrying' is an insertion indicator.
'infant' becomes 'tot' (I've seen this before).
'close to' says to take the final letters (the close/ending of).
The last letter of 'genial' is 'l'.
'tot'+'l'='totl'
'arise' placed around 'totl' is 'ARISTOTLE'.
(Other definitions for aristotle that I've seen before include "Peripatetic teacher" , "Philosopher - treats oil (anag)" , "Ancient Greek philosopher" , "Greek philosopher, pupil of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great" , "Greek logician" .)