Thoreau's democratic withdrawal : alienation, participation, and modernity / Shannon L. Mariotti.
- Mariotti, Shannon L. (Shannon Lee)
- Date:
- [2010], ©2010
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- Online
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Publication/Creation
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2010], ©2010.
Physical description
xviii, 222 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents
Damaged life, the microscopic gaze and Adorno's practice of negative dialectics -- Alienated existence, focal distancing and Emerson's transcendental idealism -- Man as machine : Thoreau and modern alienation -- Huckleberrying toward democracy : Thoreau's practices of withdrawal -- Traveling away from home : Thoreau's spaces of withdrawal -- Alienation and the anti-foundationalist foundation of the self.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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