Thoreau's Nature

Ethics, Politics, and the Wild

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Jane Bennett

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Modernity and Political Thought

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This work explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to "the wild", a term that marks the startling elements of foreigness in every object of experience, however familiar. Thoreau's encounters with nature, Bennett argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity and political complacency. Bennett pursues this theme by constructing a series of dialogues between Thoureau and modern contemporaries: Foucault on identity and power; Haraway on the nature/culture division; Hollywood celebraties on the Walden Woods project; the National Endowment for the Humanities on politics and art; and Kafka on the question of political idealism.

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Jane Bennett is a political theorist at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of The Enchantment of Modern Life and a coordinating editor of Theory & Event.

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April 3rd, 2002

Author

Jane Bennett

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General (US: Trade)

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176

Series

Modernity and Political Thought

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146x230x13

ISBN-13

9780742521414

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7695553

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