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Author Mariotti, Shannon L. (Shannon Lee)

Title Thoreau's democratic withdrawal [electronic resource] : alienation, participation, and modernity / Shannon L. Mariotti.

Imprint Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xviii, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Studies in American thought and culture
Studies in American thought and culture.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Political and social views.
Solitude -- Political aspects.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 9780299233945 (DLC) 2009008143
Standard No. 2027/heb08792 hdl

 
    
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