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THOREAU?S NATURE IBD

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHER
04 / 2002
9780742521414
Inglês

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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 Thoreau and our contemporaries: Foucault on identity and power, Haraway on the nature/culture of division, Hollywood celebrities on the Walden Woods Project, the National Endowment for the Humanities on politics and art, and Kafka on the question of political idealism.