02739nam 2200577Ia 450 99624816410331620240418053317.00-299-23393-62027/heb08792(CKB)2520000000006606(SSID)ssj0000343701(PQKBManifestationID)11243045(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000343701(PQKBWorkID)10310085(PQKB)10479985(OCoLC)550642814(MdBmJHUP)muse12371(Au-PeEL)EBL3444937(CaPaEBR)ebr10354178(MiAaPQ)EBC3444937(dli)HEB08792(MiU)MIU01000000000000011661689(EXLCZ)99252000000000660620090305d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThoreau's democratic withdrawal alienation, participation, and modernity /Shannon L. Mariotti1st ed.Madison, WI University of Wisconsin Pressc2010xviii, 222 pStudies in American thought and cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-299-23394-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Best known for his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond in Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau is often considered a recluse who emerged from solitude only occasionally to take a stand on the issues of his day. In Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal, Shannon L. Mariotti explores Thoreau's nature writings to offer a new way of understanding the unique politics of the so-called hermit of Walden Pond. Drawing imaginatively from the twentieth-century German social theorist Theodor W. Adorno, she shows how withdrawal from the public sphere can paradoxically be a valuable part of democratic politics.Studies in American thought and culture.SolitudePolitical aspectsSolitudePolitical aspects.818/.309Mariotti Shannon L(Shannon Lee)861187MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996248164103316Thoreau's democratic withdrawal1922020UNISA