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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mooney, Edward F. (1941-....)
Titre(s) : Excursions with Thoreau [Texte imprimé] : philosophy, poetry, religion / Edward F. Mooney
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Bloomsbury, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-274 p.) : ill. ; 22 cm
Comprend : Acknowledgements ; Note on abbreviations ; Preface ; Chapter 1: Overture ; Chapter
2: Celebration and Lamentation ; Chapter 3: Sympathy with Intelligence ; Chapter
4: Concord Reflections ; Chapter 5: Transforming Perception ; Chapter 6: Ethics
and the Wild ; Chapter 7: Expressive Bones ; Chapter 8: Child of the Mist ; Chapter
9: Deaths and Rebirths ; Chapter 10: Affliction and Affinity ; Chapter 11: John
Brown ; Chapter 12: Souls in Infinite Culture ; Chapter 13: Currents of Time ;
Chapter 14: Grounding Poetry ; Chapter 15: Face of the River ; Closing Thoughts
; Closing Images, Reveries, Prayers ; Closing Passions ; Chronology ; Works Cited
; Credits.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [255]-262. Index
"Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought
that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's
excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay "Walking" reveal
Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains
the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen
excursions we discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau's
grappling with underlying affliction; his pursuit of wonder as ameliorating affliction;
his use of the enigmatic image of "a child of the mist"; his exalting "sympathy with
intelligence" over plain knowledge; and his preferring "befitting reverie"--Not argument-as
the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney's aim is bring
alive Thoreau's moments of reverie and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic
and episodic rather than discursive and systematic" ; "A literary and philosophical
exploration of Thoreau as a prose-poet and religious adept who carries us into fresh
and unexpected communion with landscape, seascape, open sky, and what he calls "the
unfathomable."
Sujet(s) : Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) -- Philosophie
Philosophie -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Nature -- Dans la littérature
Transcendantalisme (philosophie américaine)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781501305658. - ISBN 1501305654. - ISBN 9781501305641. - ISBN 1501305646. -
ISBN 9781501305665 (erroné). - ISBN 9781501305672 (erroné) (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44265078r
Notice n° :
FRBNF44265078
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