Thoreau's importance for philosophy /

Thoreau's importance for philosophy /

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Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Description:	viii, 300 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	American philosophy American philosophy.
Subject:	Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862. Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8924051

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Other authors / contributors:	Furtak, Rick Anthony. Ellsworth, Jonathan. Reid, James D.
ISBN:	9780823239306 (cloth : alk. paper) 0823239306 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-297) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Locating Thoreau, Reorienting Philosophy
2. Thoreau and Emersonian Perfectionism
3. Thoreau and the Body
4. Speaking Extravagantly: Philosophical Territory and Eccentricity in Walden
5. In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World: Thoreau's Environmental Ethics
6. Articulating a Huckleberry Cosmos: Thoreau's Moral Ecology of Knowledge
7. The Value of Being: Thoreau on Appreciating the Beauty of the World
8. Thoreau's Moral Epistemology and Its Contemporary Relevance
9. How Walden Works: Thoreau and the Socratic Art of Provocation
10. Wonder and Affliction: Thoreau's Dionysian World
11. An Emerson Gone Mad: Thoreau's American Cynicism
12. Henry David Thoreau: The Asian Thread
13. The Impact of Thoreau's Political Activism
14. Walden Revisited: An Interview with Stanley Cavell Interviewed
Notes
List of Contributors
Index