Lost intimacy in American thought : recovering personal philosophy from Thoreau to Cavell / Edward F. Mooney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mooney, Edward F., 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, American.

Rationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : Continuum, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lost Intimacy in American Thought engages Henry David Thoreau, Stanley Cavell, Hanna Arendt, Henry Bugbee, Henry James, Bruce Wilshire, and others as exemplars of intimate, transformational writing that celebrates subtle mutual recognitions and encounters with place, that articulates limit conditions of birth and death, and modulations of grief and delight. Mooney traces writers who crisscross between literature, religion, and philosophy, in exploration that renews affect and sensibility. Through passionate address, they provoke and energize occluded corners and aspects of memory, and release

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 THOREAU AND OTHERS: Thinking from Imagination and the Heart; Part II: HENRY BUGBEE, THOREAU, CAVELL; Chapter 2 A PHILOSOPHY IN WILDERNESS; Chapter 3 A LYRIC PHILOSOPHY OF PLACE; Chapter 4 DEATH AND THE SUBLIME: Henry Bugbee's In Demonstration of the Spirit; Chapter 5 BECOMING WHAT WE PRAY: Passion's Gentler Resolutions; Chapter 6 TWO TESTIMONIES IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY: Stanley Cavell, Henry Bugbee; Part III: SIX PRAISING EXPLORATIONS

Chapter 7 STANLEY CAVELL-ACKNOWLEDGMENT, SUFFERING, AND PRAISE: A Religious Continental ThinkerChapter 8 BRUCE WILSHIRE: The Breathtaking Intimacy of the Material World; Chapter 9 HENRY JAMES-AN ETHICS OF INTIMATE CONVERSATION: Is the Unacknowledged Life Worth Living?; Chapter 10 PRESERVATIVE CARE: Saving Intimate Voice in the Humanities; Chapter 11 J. GLENN GRAY AND HANNAH ARENDT-SQUIRES IN THIS VALE OF TEARS: Poetry in a Time of War; Chapter 12 THOREAU'S TRANSLATIONS: John Brown, Apples, Lilies; CONCLUSION; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-87071-8

9786612870712

0-8264-4682-5

OCLC:

676697087