Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing |
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[Dedication] |
Contents |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction |
1. The Eternal Now |
2. Three Apple Trees |
3. Another Apple Tree |
4. Thoreau at the Crossroads |
• | THE POSITIVIST CHALLENGE TO ROMANTIC SCIENCE |
• | THE “SANCTITY OF FACTS” |
• | PHILOSOPHICAL SUPPORT |
• | THE ACADEMY |
• | TENSIONS |
• | MEANINGFUL SCIENCE? |
5. Thoreau's Personalized Facts |
6. Thoreau's Moral Universe |
7. The Self-Positing I |
Epilogue |
Notes |
References |
Index |