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Excursions with Thoreau - Philosophy, Poetry, Religion (Hardcover)
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Excursions with Thoreau - Philosophy, Poetry, Religion (Hardcover)
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Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's
writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the
literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through
passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay "Walking" reveal
Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of
course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and
environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we
discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are
Thoreau's grappling with underlying affliction; his pursuit of
wonder as ameliorating affliction; his use of the enigmatic image
of "a child of the mist"; his exalting "sympathy with intelligence"
over plain knowledge; and his preferring "befitting reverie"-not
argument-as the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of
reality. Mooney's aim is bring alive Thoreau's moments of reverie
and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic and episodic
rather than discursive and systematic.
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