LEADER 05286nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910826971503321 005 20240401153619.0 010 $a0-8203-4429-X 010 $a0-8203-4478-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000001110810 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000981441 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11632756 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981441 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10973363 035 $a(PQKB)10505422 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1352474 035 $a(OCoLC)867739957 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18996 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1352474 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10752287 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL510702 035 $a(OCoLC)856870036 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001110810 100 $a20130913d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aThoreauvian modernities $etransatlantic conversations on an American icon /$fedited by Franc?ois Specq, Laura Dassow Walls, and Michel Granger 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens, Ga. $cUniversity of Georgia Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 310 p.) $cill., map 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8203-4428-1 311 $a1-299-79451-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Manifold Modernity of Henry D. Thoreau -- Part One: Thoreau and (non)Modernity -- Walking West, Gazing East: Planetarity on the Shores of Cape Cod -- Antimodern Thoreau -- Thoreau's Multiple Modernities -- Thoreau, Modernity, and Nature's Seasons -- An Infinite Road to the Golden Age: A Close Reading of Thoreau's "Road-that old Carlisle one" in the Late Journal (24 September 1859) -- Part Two: Thoreau and Philosophy -- "Being Is the Great Explainer": Thoreau and the Ontological Turn in American Thought -- Character and Nature: Toward an Aristotelian Understanding of Thoreau's Literary Portraits and Environmental Poetics -- Thoreau's Work on Myth: The Modern and the Primitive -- "A Sort of Hybrid Product": Thoreau's Individualism between Liberalism and Communitarianism -- Part Three: Thoreau, Language, and the Wild -- Nature, Knowledge, and the Method of Thoreau's Excursions -- Thoreau's Radical Empiricism: The Kalendar, Pragmatism, and Science -- "The Maze of Phenomena": Perception and Particular Knowledge in Thoreau's Journal -- Poetics of Thoreau's Journal and Postmodern Aesthetics -- Fraught Ecstasy: Contemporary Encounters with Thoreau's Postpristine Nature -- Brute Neighbors: The Modernity of a Metaphor -- "Tawny Grammar": Words in the Wild -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. 330 $aDoes Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of "pure" nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able to focus on both the timeless and the timely. Contributors from the United States and Europe explore Thoreau’s modernity and give a much-needed reassessment of his work in a global context. The first of three sections, "Thoreau and (Non)Modernity," views Thoreau as a social thinker who set himself against the "modern" currents of his day even while contributing to the emergence of a new era. By questioning the place of humans in the social, economic, natural, and metaphysical order, he ushered in a rethinking of humanity’s role in the natural world that nurtured the environmental movement. The second section, "Thoreau and Philosophy," examines Thoreau’s writings in light of the philosophy of his time as well as current philosophical debates. Section three, "Thoreau, Language, and the Wild," centers on his relationship to wild nature in its philosophical, scientific, linguistic, and literary dimensions. Together, these sixteen essays reveal Thoreau’s relevance to a number of fields, including science, philosophy, aesthetics, environmental ethics, political science, and animal studies. Thoreauvian Modernities posits that it is the germinating power of Thoreau’s thought—the challenge it poses to our own thinking and its capacity to address pressing issues in a new way—that defines his enduring relevance and his modernity. Contributors: Kristen Case, Randall Conrad, David Dowling, Michel Granger, Michel Imbert, Michael Jonik, Christian Maul, Bruno Monfort, Henrik Otterberg, Tom Pughe, David M. Robinson, William Rossi, Dieter Schulz, François Specq, Joseph Urbas, 330 8 $aLaura Dassow Walls. 606 $aCivilization, Modern, in literature 606 $aTranscendentalism (New England) 615 0$aCivilization, Modern, in literature. 615 0$aTranscendentalism (New England) 676 $a818/.309 701 $aSpecq$b Francois$f1965-$01723681 701 $aWalls$b Laura Dassow$0976847 701 $aGranger$b Michel$f1947-$01723682 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826971503321 996 $aThoreauvian modernities$94125137 997 $aUNINA