Thoreau's nature : ethics, politics, and the wild /
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| Author / Creator: | Bennett, Jane, 1957- |
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| Imprint: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1994. |
| Description: | xxvii, 141 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Modernity and political thought vol. 7 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1720481 |
| Summary: | Inserting a nineteent century thinker into the intellectual debates of the late twentieth century, Jane Bennett enters Thoreau into a series of dialogues with recent contemporary thinkers: Foucault on the question of identity and power; Donna Haraway on nature and culture; Hollywood celebrities on the Walden Woods project on the environment; the National Endowment for the Humanities and others regarding the relation between politics and arts; and Kafka on the question of political idealism. Bennett suggests that many dimensions of Thoreau′s thought exhibit a ′postmodern sensibility′ that crosses into the late twentieth century. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvii, 141 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0803938683 0803938691 |
