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Jane Bennett - Thoreau´s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild - 9780742521414 - V9780742521414
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Thoreau´s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild

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Description for Thoreau´s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild Paperback. Thoreau's encounters with nature, the author 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 Thoureau and modern contemporaries. Series: Modernity and Political Thought. Num Pages: 176 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; HPCD; HPCF; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 146 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Modernity and Political Thought
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742521414
SKU
V9780742521414
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99-15

About Jane Bennett
Jane Bennett is a political theorist at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of The Enchantment of Modern Life and a coordinating editor of Theory & Event.

Reviews for Thoreau´s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild
In a graceful and personal way, Jane Bennett offers a reading of Thoreau that is fresh and intellectually provocative. Most broadly, the book is important because it is sensitive to Thoreau's claim on our attention: it shows the 'postmodern' resonance of his concerns with self-fashioning and care of self, with the experience and representation of nature, with the power and ... Read more

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