Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing

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  [Dedication]
  Contents
  Acknowledgments
 collapse sectionIntroduction
 THE FORCE OF CHARACTER
 PLAN OF THE BOOK

 collapse section1. The Eternal Now
 THE EVER-PRESENT PRESENT
 THE CYCLIC CHARACTER OF TIME: CONTRA AUGUSTINE
 THOREAU'S GRAPPLING WITH TIME
 THE SELF IN TIME
 collapse section2. Three Apple Trees
 HISTORY AS NARRATION
 THE STORY OF CLUES, THE GRAMMAR OF SEMIOTIC HISTORY
 THE ART OF MEMORY
 THE ANVIL OF MEMORY
 collapse section3. Another Apple Tree
 AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL TOPOGRAPHY
 THE DEEDS OF LIGHT
 THE WORLDING OF NATURE
 collapse section4. Thoreau at the Crossroads
 THE POSITIVIST CHALLENGE TO ROMANTIC SCIENCE
 THE “SANCTITY OF FACTS”
 PHILOSOPHICAL SUPPORT
 THE ACADEMY
 TENSIONS
 MEANINGFUL SCIENCE?
 collapse section5. Thoreau's  Personalized Facts
 THOREAU'S SCIENCE
 THE CONUNDRUM OF BEAUTY
 THOREAU'S COORDINATES OF THE KNOWING SELF
 collapse section6. Thoreau's Moral Universe
 VIRTUE
 THE LIMITS OF WRITING
 A HERO AMONG US?
 collapse section7. The Self-Positing I
 A PRAYER
 PHILOSOPHICAL INTERLUDE
 THE PROBLEM OF THE SELF
 IN SEARCH OF THE SELF

  Epilogue
 collapse sectionNotes
 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

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