Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild

by Jane Bennett

Book Overview

Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to "the Wild," a term that marks the startling element of foreignness 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742521400
• ISBN13: 9780742521407
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages