Excursions with Thoreau: philosophy, poetry, religion
"Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay "Walking" reveal Thoreau as a mira...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay "Walking" reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau's grappling with underlying affliction; his pursuit of wonder as ameliorating affliction; his use of the enigmatic image of "a child of the mist"; his exalting "sympathy with intelligence" over plain knowledge; and his preferring "befitting reverie"-not argument-as the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney's aim is bring alive Thoreau's moments of reverie and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic and episodic rather than discursive and systematic".. |
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| adam_text | Taking us through passages from Walden, Cape Col and the late essay
Walking, Edward F. Mooney reveals Thore.au as a miraculous writer, artist,
and religious adept. While Thoreau of course remains the familiar political
activist and environmental philosopher, we discover new terrain in these fifteen
excursions, Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau’s pursuit of
wonder as ameliorating affliction; his exalting “sympathy with intelligence
over plain knowledge; and his preferring “befitting reverie to argument as the
path to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney’s aim throughout is to
moments of insight and to frame his philosophy as poetic
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Note on Abbreviations xi
Preface xiii
1 Overture 1
2 Celebration and Lamentation 17
3 Sympathy with Intelligence 37
4 Concord Reflections 59
5 Transforming Perceptions 81
6 Ethics and the Wild 97
7 Expressive Bones 111
8 Child of the Mist 119
9 Deaths and Rebirths 135
10 Affliction and Affinity 147
11 John Brown 165
12 Souls in Infinite Culture 179
13 Currents of Time 191
14 Grounding Poetry 203
15 Face of the River 223
Closing Thoughts 239
Closing Images, Reveries, Prayers 241
Closing Passions 243
Chronology 253
Works Cited 255
Credits 263
Index 265
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