Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing |
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[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 |