Thoreau's democratic withdrawal : alienation, participation, and modernity / Shannon L. Mariotti
- Author:
- Mariotti, Shannon L. (Shannon Lee)
- Published:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2010]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2010
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 222 pages ; 23 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Preface: Reclaiming Spaces of Withdrawal for Democratic Politics -- Introduction. Reading Thoreau with Adorno -- Pt. 1. Two Interlocutors for Thoreau: Adorno and Emerson -- 1. Damaged Life, the Microscopic Gaze, and Adorno's Practice of Negative Dialectics -- 2. Alienated Existence, Focal Distancing, and Emerson's Transcendental Idealism -- Pt. 2. Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal -- 3. Man as Machine: Thoreau and Modern Alienation -- 4. Huckleberrying toward Democracy: Thoreau's Practices of Withdrawal 117 -- 5. Traveling Away from Home: Thoreau's Spaces of Withdrawal -- Conclusion: Alienation and the Anti-Foundationalist Foundation of the Self.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780299233945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0299233944 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299233938 (e-book)
0299233936 (e-book) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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