Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild

by Jane Bennett

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0742521419

ISBN13:9780742521414

Release Date:April 2002

Publisher:Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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