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Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness (Hardcover)
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Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness (Hardcover)
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When Henry David Thoreau died in 1862, friends and admirers
remembered him as an eccentric man whose outer life was
continuously fed by deeper spiritual currents. But scholars have
since focused almost exclusively on Thoreau's literary, political,
and scientific contributions. This book offers the first in-depth
study of Thoreau's religious thought and experience. In it Alan D.
Hodder recovers the lost spiritual dimension of the writer's life,
revealing a deeply religious man who, despite his rejection of
organized religion, possessed a rich inner life, characterized by a
sort of personal, experiential, nature-centered, and eclectic
spirituality that finds wider expression in America today. At the
heart of Thoreau's life were episodes of exhilaration in nature
that he commonly referred to as his ecstasies. Hodder explores
these representations of ecstasy throughout Thoreau's writings-from
the riverside reflections of his first book through Walden and the
later journals, when he conceived his journal writing as a
spiritual discipline in itself and a kind of forum in which to
cultivate experiences of contemplative non-attachment. In doing so,
Hodder restores to our understanding the deeper spiritual dimension
of Thoreau's life to which his writings everywhere bear witness.
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