Thoreau's Importance for Philosophy.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Furtak, Rick Anthony
Other Authors: Ellsworth, Jonathan, Reid, James D. (James David)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Series:American philosophy
Subjects:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophy, Modern
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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