Mariotti, Shannon L.

Thoreau's democratic withdrawal aliena tion, participation, and modernity / [electronic resource] : Shannon L. Mariotti. - Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010. - xviii, 222 p. ; 23 cm. - Studies in American thought and culture . - Studies in American thought and culture. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Damaged life, the microscopic gaze and Adorno's practice of negative dialectics -- Alienated existence, focal distancing and Emerson's tran scendental 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 -- Alienati on and the anti-foundationalist foundation of the self.


Electronic text and image data.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing,
2012.
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Mode of a ccess: Intranet.


Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Political and social views.


Solitude