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.

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Studies in American thought and culture

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.

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9780299233945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0299233944 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299233938 (e-book)
0299233936 (e-book)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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