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Seeing new worlds : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century natural science /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, WI :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©1995.
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| Colección: | Science and literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Facts and Truth: Transcendental Science from Cambridge to Concord
- Nominalists, Realists, Idealists: Harvard and After, 1837
- Romantic Theologies
- Natural History before Walden
- 2. Empire of Thought and the Republic of Particulars
- Law as Logos
- Rational Holism
- Organic Machine: Making Matter Mind
- Emergent Laws
- Empirical Holism
- 3. Seeing New Worlds: Thoreau and Humboldtian Science
- Alexander von Humboldt, the "Napoleon of Science"
- Fronting Nature at Walden, 1845-1847
- After Walden: Old Worlds and New
- 4. Cosmos: Knowing as Worlding
- Thoreau as Humboldtian
- Relational Knowing: Thoreau's Epistemology of Contact
- Writing the Cosmos: Walden
- 5. Plurality of Worlds
- Intentions of the Eye
- Worlds without End: The Dispersion of Seeds
- Transcendentalist at the Cattle Show: Thoreau's Ironic Science
- 6. Walking the Holy Land
- Contingent Wholes: A Few Herbs and Apples
- Chance and Necessity: The Laughter of the Loon
- "Walking, or the Wild"
- Conclusion: Disciplining Thoreau.