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