Lost Intimacy in American Thought: Recovering Personal Philosophy From Thoreau to Cavell
Autor Professor Edward F. Mooneyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 dec 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781441168580
ISBN-10: 1441168583
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1441168583
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Edward F. Mooney
Cuprins
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
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
Descriere
Offers a critique of rationalism in contemporary American thought by recovering a lost tradition of intimacy in the writings of Thoreau, Bugbee, James, Arendt, Dickinson, Fuller, Wilshire and Cavell. This title focuses on a number of American philosophers whose work overlaps the religious and the literary.