| Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing |
| [Photograph] |
| [Dedication] |
| Contents |
| Acknowledgments |
 | Introduction |
| • | THE FORCE OF CHARACTER |
| • | PLAN OF THE BOOK |
| 1. The Eternal Now |
| • | THE EVER-PRESENT PRESENT |
| • | THE CYCLIC CHARACTER OF TIME: CONTRA AUGUSTINE |
| • | THOREAU'S GRAPPLING WITH TIME |
| • | THE SELF IN TIME |
| 2. Three Apple Trees |
| • | HISTORY AS NARRATION |
| • | THE STORY OF CLUES, THE GRAMMAR OF SEMIOTIC HISTORY |
| • | THE ART OF MEMORY |
| • | THE ANVIL OF MEMORY |
| 3. Another Apple Tree |
| • | AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL TOPOGRAPHY |
| • | THE DEEDS OF LIGHT |
| • | THE WORLDING OF NATURE |
| 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 |
| • | THOREAU'S SCIENCE |
| • | THE CONUNDRUM OF BEAUTY |
| • | THOREAU'S COORDINATES OF THE KNOWING SELF |
| 6. Thoreau's Moral Universe |
| • | VIRTUE |
| • | THE LIMITS OF WRITING |
| • | A HERO AMONG US? |
| 7. The Self-Positing I |
| • | A PRAYER |
| • | PHILOSOPHICAL INTERLUDE |
| • | THE PROBLEM OF THE SELF |
| • | IN SEARCH OF THE SELF |
| Epilogue |
| Notes |
| • | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
| • | INTRODUCTION |
| • | 1. THE ETERNAL NOW |
| • | 2. THREE APPLE TREES |
| • | 3. ANOTHER APPLE TREE |
| • | 4. THOREAU AT THE CROSSROADS |
| • | 5. THOREAU'S PERSONALIZED FACTS |
| • | 6. THOREAU'S MORAL UNIVERSE |
| • | 7. THE SELF-POSITING I |
| • | EPILOGUE: MENDING THE WORLD |
| References |
| Index |
