Thoreau's Importance for Philosophy /

Thoreau's Importance for Philosophy / / ed. by Rick Anthony Furtak, Jonathan Ellsworth, James D. Reid.

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The philosophical significance of Henry David Thoreau's life and writings is far from settled. Although his best-known book, Walden, is admired as a classic work of American literature, it has not yet been widely recognized as an important philosophical text. In fact, many members of the academ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Douglas R.,
Bates, Stanley,
Cafaro, Philip J.,
Ellsworth, Jonathan,
Friedrich, Paul,
Furtak, Rick Anthony,
Goodman, Russell B.,
McGregor, Robert Kuhn,
Mooney, Edward F.,
Reid, James D.,
Tauber, Alfred I.,
Walls, Laura Dassow,
HerausgeberIn:
Ellsworth, Jonathan,
Furtak, Rick Anthony,
Reid, James D.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:American Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Locating Thoreau, Reorienting Philosophy
  • 2. Thoreau and Emersonian Perfectionism
  • 3. Thoreau and the Body
  • 4. Speaking Extravagantly
  • 5. In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World
  • 6. Articulating a Huckleberry Cosmos
  • 7. The Value of Being
  • 8. Thoreau’s Moral Epistemology and Its Contemporary Relevance
  • 9. How Walden Works
  • 10. Wonder and Affliction
  • 11. An Emerson Gone Mad
  • 12. Henry David Thoreau
  • 13. The Impact of Thoreau’s Political Activism
  • 14. Walden Revisited
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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