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Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

Mooney, Edward F.

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1501305646
ISBN13: 9781501305641
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Oct 22 2015
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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.

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