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Thoreau's democratic withdrawal: alienation, participation, and modernity

Shannon L. Mariotti c2010 © University of Wisconsin Press
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  • 9780299233938 (ebook)
  • 9780299233945 (paper)
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  • Philosophy
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Preface: reclaiming Space of Withdrawal for Democratic Politics (page xi)
  • Introduction: reading Thoreau with Adorno (page 3)
  • PART I Two Interlocutors for Thoreau: Adorno and Emerson
    • 1 Damaged Life, the Microscopic Gaze, and Adorno's Practice of Negative Dialectics (page 33)
    • 2 Alienated Existance, Focal Distancing, and Emerson's Transcendental Idealism (page 58)
  • PART 2 Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal
    • 3 Man as Machine: Thoreau and Modern Alienation (page 85)
    • 4 Huckleberrying toward Democracy: Thoreau's Practices of Withdrawal (page 117)
    • 5 Traveling Away from Home: Thoreau's Spaces of Withdrawal (page 145)
  • Conclusion: Alienation and the Anti-Foundationalist Foundation of the Self (page 167)
  • Notes (page 173)
  • Bibliography (page 201)
  • Index (page 211)
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