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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
245 0 0 _aThoreau's Importance for Philosophy /
_ced. by Rick Anthony Furtak, Jonathan Ellsworth, James D. Reid.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource (314 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aAmerican Philosophy
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_t1. Locating Thoreau, Reorienting Philosophy --
_t2. Thoreau and Emersonian Perfectionism --
_t3. Thoreau and the Body --
_t4. Speaking Extravagantly --
_t5. In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World --
_t6. Articulating a Huckleberry Cosmos --
_t7. The Value of Being --
_t8. Thoreau’s Moral Epistemology and Its Contemporary Relevance --
_t9. How Walden Works --
_t10. Wonder and Affliction --
_t11. An Emerson Gone Mad --
_t12. Henry David Thoreau --
_t13. The Impact of Thoreau’s Political Activism --
_t14. Walden Revisited --
_tNotes --
_tContributors --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe 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 academic philosophical community in America would be reluctant to classify Thoreau as a philosopher at all. The purpose of this volume is to remedy this neglect, to explain Thoreau's philosophical significance, and to argue that we can still learn from his polemical conception of philosophy. Thoreau sought to establish philosophy as a way of life, and to root our philosophical, conceptual affairs in more practical or existential concerns. His work provides us with a sustained meditation on the appropriate conduct of life and the importance of leading our lives with integrity, avoiding what he calls "quiet desperation." The contributors to this volume approach Thoreau's writings from different angles, collectively bringing to light what, in his own distinctive and idiosyncratic way, this major American thinker has meant to multiple areas of philosophical inquiry, and why he is still relevant. They show how the imagination, according to Thoreau, might be related to the disclosure of truth; they illuminate the nuances of embodied consciousness and explore the links between moral character and scientific knowledge. They clarify Thoreau's project by locating it in relation to earlier philosophical authors and traditions, noting the ways in which he either anticipated or influenced a host of later thinkers. They explore his aesthetic views, his naturalism, his theory of self, his ethical principles, and his political stances. Most importantly, they show how Thoreau returns philosophy to its roots as the love of wisdom.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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700 1 _aAnderson, Douglas R.
_eautore
700 1 _aBates, Stanley
_eautore
700 1 _aCafaro, Philip J.
_eautore
700 1 _aEllsworth, Jonathan
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aFriedrich, Paul
_eautore
700 1 _aFurtak, Rick Anthony
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aGoodman, Russell B.
_eautore
700 1 _aMcGregor, Robert Kuhn
_eautore
700 1 _aMooney, Edward F.
_eautore
700 1 _aReid, James D.
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aTauber, Alfred I.
_eautore
700 1 _aWalls, Laura Dassow
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293391
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823293391
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