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New edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (176 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Modernity and political thought ; 7
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Modernity and political thought ; v. 7.
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| Note |
Originally published in 1994. Reprinted with new preface and introduction. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Preface to the New Edition; Preface; Bibliographical Key; 1. Why Thoreau Hates Politics; The They; American Politics; Reformers and Dissenters; A Night in the Concord Jail; 2. Techniques of the Self; Moving Inward; Idealizing a Friend; Keeping Quiet; Going Outside; Microvisioning; Living Doubly; Hoeing Beans; Eating with Care; Building the Sojourner; 3. Writing a Heteroverse; Pliny's Assumption; Ktaadn and the Mosquito; Universe and Heteroverse; Swamps, Winter Animals, and Frogs; Mythological Earnestness. |
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InflectionA Quiet Acknowledgment; Thoreau and Haraway; 4. Art and Politics; The Walden Woods Project; Contra Thoreau Contra Politics; Art/Politics; A Minor Literature?; A Word for Politics; 5. Fronting Thoreau; Temperament and Sensibility; On Transcending; Nietzsche, Freud, and Genealogy; America; Community and Justice; Kafka's Laugh; Political Sojourning; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to 'the Wild, ' a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of experience, however familiar. Thoreau's encounters with nature, Bennett argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity, and political complacency. Bennett pursues this theme by constructing a series of dialogues between Thoreau and our contemporaries: Foucault on identity and power, Haraway on the nature/culture of division, Hollywood celebrities on the Walden. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Ethics.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. |
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Ethics. |
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Knowledge and learning -- Natural history.
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Natural history. |
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Political and social views.
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Political and social views. |
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Ethics.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bennett, Jane, 1957- Thoreau's nature. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002] xxxiii, 141 pages ; 23 cm. Modernity and political thought ; 7 9780742521407 |
| ISBN |
9781461715412 (electronic book) |
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1461715415 (electronic book) |
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9780742521407 |
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