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Autore |
Tauber Alfred I |
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Titolo |
Henry David Thoreau and the moral agency of knowing [[electronic resource]] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-93733-3 |
1-59734-649-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (315 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Knowledge, Theory of, in literature |
Positivism |
Romanticism |
Romanticism - United States |
Thoreau, Henry David,-- 1817-1862-- Philosophy |
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature - United States |
American Literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Eternal Now; 2. three apple trees; 3. another apple tree; 4. thoreau at the crossroads; 5. thoreau's personalized facts; 6. thoreau's moral universe; 7. the self-positing i; epilogue; References |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In his graceful philosophical account, Alfred I. Tauber shows why Thoreau still seems so relevant today--more relevant in many respects than he seemed to his contemporaries. Although Thoreau has been skillfully and thoroughly examined as a writer, naturalist, mystic, historian, social thinker, Transcendentalist, and lifelong student, we may find in Tauber's portrait of Thoreau the moralist a characterization that binds all these aspects of his career together. |
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