Thoreau's Nature - Ethics, Politics, and the Wild (Paperback, New Edition)

Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to 'the Wild, ' a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of experience, however familiar. Thoreau's encounters with nature, Bennett argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity, and political complacency. Bennett pursues this theme by constructing a series of dialogues between Thoreau and our contemporaries: Foucault on identity and power, Haraway on the nature/culture of division, Hollywood celebrities on the Walden Woods Project, the National Endowment for the Humanities on politics and art, and Kafka on the question of political idealism. The pertinence to the late 20th century of Thoreau's pursuit of independent judgment, ecological foresight, and moral nobility becomes apparent through these engagements

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Modernity and Political Thought
Release date:	June 2002
First published:	April 2002
Authors:	Jane Bennett
Dimensions:	230 x 146 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
Edition:	New Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-2141-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7425-2141-9
Barcode:	9780742521414

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