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Thoreau's Importance for Philosophy.

Although Henry David ThoreauGs 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 academic philosophers would be reluctant to classify Thoreau as a philosopher at all. The purpose of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Furtak, Rick Anthony
Otros Autores: Ellsworth, Jonathan, Reid, James D. (James David)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Colección:American philosophy
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 Thoreauâ€?s moral epistemology and its contemporary relevance -- 9 How walden works -- 10 Wonder and affliction -- 11 An emerson gone mad -- 12 Henry David Thoreau: The Asian thread -- 13 The impact of Thoreauâ€?s political activism -- 14 Walden revisited -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-297) and index. 
520 |a Although Henry David ThoreauGs 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 academic philosophers would be reluctant to classify Thoreau as a philosopher at all. The purpose of this volume is to remedy this neglect, to explain ThoreauGs 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 exist. 
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