Lost intimacy in American thought : recovering personal philosophy from Thoreau to Cavell / / Edward F. Mooney
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| Autore: |
Mooney Edward F. <1941->
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| Titolo: |
Lost intimacy in American thought : recovering personal philosophy from Thoreau to Cavell / / Edward F. Mooney
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Continuum, , 2009 |
| ©2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 191 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy, American |
| Rationalism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 THOREAU AND OTHERS: Thinking from Imagination and the Heart; Part II: HENRY BUGBEE, THOREAU, CAVELL; Chapter 2 A PHILOSOPHY IN WILDERNESS; Chapter 3 A LYRIC PHILOSOPHY OF PLACE; Chapter 4 DEATH AND THE SUBLIME: Henry Bugbee's In Demonstration of the Spirit; Chapter 5 BECOMING WHAT WE PRAY: Passion's Gentler Resolutions; Chapter 6 TWO TESTIMONIES IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: Stanley Cavell, Henry Bugbee; Part III: SIX PRAISING EXPLORATIONS |
| Chapter 7 STANLEY CAVELL-ACKNOWLEDGMENT, SUFFERING, AND PRAISE: A Religious Continental ThinkerChapter 8 BRUCE WILSHIRE: The Breathtaking Intimacy of the Material World; Chapter 9 HENRY JAMES-AN ETHICS OF INTIMATE CONVERSATION: Is the Unacknowledged Life Worth Living?; Chapter 10 PRESERVATIVE CARE: Saving Intimate Voice in the Humanities; Chapter 11 J. GLENN GRAY AND HANNAH ARENDT-SQUIRES IN THIS VALE OF TEARS: Poetry in a Time of War; Chapter 12 THOREAU'S TRANSLATIONS: John Brown, Apples, Lilies; CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V | |
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| Sommario/riassunto: | Lost Intimacy in American Thought engages Henry David Thoreau, Stanley Cavell, Hanna Arendt, Henry Bugbee, Henry James, Bruce Wilshire, and others as exemplars of intimate, transformational writing that celebrates subtle mutual recognitions and encounters with place, that articulates limit conditions of birth and death, and modulations of grief and delight. Mooney traces writers who crisscross between literature, religion, and philosophy, in exploration that renews affect and sensibility. Through passionate address, they provoke and energize occluded corners and aspects of memory, and release |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Lost intimacy in American thought |
| ISBN: | 1-282-87071-8 |
| 9786612870712 | |
| 0-8264-4682-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810086503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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