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Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing by Alfred I. Tauber (2001, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520225279

ISBN-139780520225275

eBay Product ID (ePID)1872380

Product Key Features

Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHenry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing

SubjectEpistemology, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, American / General, Movements / Rationalism

Publication Year2001

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy

AuthorAlfred I. Tauber

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight17 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN00-068283

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal818/.309

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Eternal Now 2. Three Apple Trees 3. Another Apple Tree 4. Thoreau at the Crossroads 5. Thoreau's Personalized Facts 6. Thoreau's Moral Universe 7. The Self-Positing I Epilogue: Mending the World Notes References Index

SynopsisIn his graceful philosophical account, Alfred I. Tauber shows why Thoreau still seems so relevant today--more relevant in many respects than he seemed to his contemporaries. Although Thoreau has been skillfully and thoroughly examined as a writer, naturalist, mystic, historian, social thinker, Transcendentalist, and lifelong student, we may find in Tauber's portrait of Thoreau the moralist a characterization that binds all these aspects of his career together. Thoreau was caught at a critical turn in the history of science, between the ebb of Romanticism and the rising tide of positivism. He responded to the challenges posed by the new ideal of objectivity not by rejecting the scientific worldview, but by humanizing it for himself. Tauber portrays Thoreau as a man whose moral vision guided his life's work. Each of Thoreau's projects reflected a self-proclaimed "metaphysical ethics," an articulated program of self-discovery and self-knowing. By writing, by combining precision with poetry in his naturalist pursuits and simplicity with mystical fervor in his daily activity, Thoreau sought to live a life of virtue--one he would characterize as marked by deliberate choice. This unique vision of human agency and responsibility will still seem fresh and contemporary to readers at the start of the twenty-first century.

LC Classification NumberPS3057.P4 T38 2001