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Author Mariotti, Shannon L. (Shannon Lee)

Title Thoreau's democratic withdrawal : alienation, participation, and modernity / Shannon L. Mariotti.

Publication Info. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 222 pages).
Series Studies in American thought and culture
Studies in American thought and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Damaged life, the microscopic gaze and Adorno's practice of negative dialectics -- Alienated existence, focal distancing and Emerson's transcendental 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 -- Alienation and the anti-foundationalist foundation of the self.
Note Print version record.
Subject Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Political and social views.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. (OCoLC)fst00029125
Solitude -- Political aspects.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst01353986
Other Form: Print version: Mariotti, Shannon L. (Shannon Lee). Thoreau's democratic withdrawal. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2010 9780299233945 (DLC) 2009008143 (OCoLC)313077993
ISBN 9780299233938 (electronic bk.)
0299233936 (electronic bk.)
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