Lost Intimacy in American Thought: Recovering Personal Philosophy From Thoreau to Cavell

Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I. Introduction
1. Thoreau and Others: Thinking from Imagination and the Heart

Part II. Henry Bugbee, Thoreau, And Cavell
2. A Philosophy in Wilderness
3. A Lyric Philosophy of Place
4. Death and the Sublime: Henry Bugbee's In Demonstration of the Spirit
5. Becoming What We Pray: Passion's Gentler Resolutions
6. Two Testimonies in American Philosophy: Stanley Cavell, Henry Bugbee

Part III. Five Praising Explorations
7. Stanley Cavell - Acknowledgment, Suffering and Praise: A Religious Continental Thinker
8. Bruce Wilshire: The Breathtaking Intimacy of the Material World
9. Henry James - An Ethics of Intimate Conversation: Is the Unacknowledged Life Worth Living?
10. Preservative Care: Saving Intimate Voice in the Humanities
11. J. Glenn Grey and Hannah Arendt - Squires in this Vale of Tears:: Poetry in a Time of War
12. Thoreau's Translations: John Brown, Applies, Lilies

Conclusions
Bibliography
Index