Excursions with Thoreau : philosophy, poetry, religion / Edward F. Mooney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mooney, Edward F., 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Philosophy.

Thoreau, Henry David.

Insight.

Nature in literature.

Poetry--Influence.

Poetry.

Religion in literature.

Suffering in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay "Walking" reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau's grappling with underlying affliction; his pursuit of wonder as ameliorating affliction; his use of the enigmatic image of "a child of the mist"; his exalting "sympathy with intelligence" over plain knowledge; and his preferring "befitting reverie"-not argument-as the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney's aim is bring alive Thoreau's moments of reverie and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic and episodic rather than discursive and systematic."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

"A literary and philosophical exploration of Thoreau as a prose-poet and religious adept who carries us into fresh and unexpected communion with landscape, seascape, open sky, and what he calls "the unfathomable."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1: Overture

Chapter 2: Celebration and Lamentation

Chapter 3: Sympathy with Intelligence

Chapter 4: Concord Reflections

Chapter 5: Transforming Perception

Chapter 6: Ethics and the Wild

Chapter 7: Expressive Bones

Chapter 8: Child of the Mist

Chapter 9: Deaths and Rebirths

Chapter 10: Affliction and Affinity

Chapter 11: John Brown

Chapter 12: Souls in Infinite Culture

Chapter 13: Currents of Time

Chapter 14: Grounding Poetry

Chapter 15: Face of the River

Closing Thoughts

Closing Images, Reveries, Prayers

Closing Passions

Works Cited.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501305689

1501305689

9781501305672

1501305670

OCLC:

919087691