Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing

  [Photograph]
  [Dedication]
  Contents
  Acknowledgments
 expand sectionIntroduction

 expand section1. The Eternal Now
 expand section2. Three Apple Trees
 expand section3. Another Apple Tree
 collapse section4. Thoreau at the Crossroads
 THE POSITIVIST CHALLENGE TO ROMANTIC SCIENCE
 THE “SANCTITY OF FACTS”
 PHILOSOPHICAL SUPPORT
 THE ACADEMY
 TENSIONS
 MEANINGFUL SCIENCE?
 expand section5. Thoreau's  Personalized Facts
 expand section6. Thoreau's Moral Universe
 expand section7. The Self-Positing I

  Epilogue
 expand sectionNotes
  References
  Index

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