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Henry David Thoreau - Grasping the Community of the World; Translated by Jean Ward

by Tadeusz Slawek

  • Hardback
  • 316 pages
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
  • 14.9 x 21.1 x 2.3 cm

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For students of philosophy and literature

Examines the tension between self and society

Gain fresh perspectives on how we live together

Explore Thoreau's prophetic insights on the modern crisis between the individual and the wider community.

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This study takes up Thoreau's work as an early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships between the individual and society. Thus Adorno's formulation of a melancholy of science finds its predecessor in Thoreau's famous dictum from the early pages of Walden that we live our lives in quiet desperation. The author reads Thoreau's Journal as an attempt to refute tendencies towards the narrowing of life to being understood merely in techno-economic categories which threaten the quality of the development of both the individual and the community. Thus in literary scholarship it is essential to find strategies which will critically contribute to understanding and transforming what Auerbach called ways of life and what Barthes referred to as living-together.
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Sacred And The ProfaneHenry David Thoreau - Grasping the Community of the World; Translated by Jean Ward

  • Title

    Henry David Thoreau - Grasping the Community of the World; Translated by Jean Ward

  • Author

    Tadeusz Slawek

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W

  • Published

    July 2014

  • Weight

    573g

  • Page Count

    316

  • Dimensions

    14.9 x 21.1 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9783631640982

  • ISBN-10

    3631640986

  • Eden Code

    5513157