Lost intimacy in American thought : recovering personal philosophy from Thoreau to Cavell / Edward F. Mooney.

Author/creator Mooney, Edward F., 1941-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Continuum, ©2009.
Descriptionxiv, 234 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Thoreau and others : thinking from imagination and the heart -- A philosophy in wilderness -- A lyric philosophy of place -- Death and the sublime : Henry Bugbee's In demonstration of the spirit -- Becoming what we pray : passion's gentler resolutions -- Two testimonies in American philosophy : Stanley Cavell, Henry Bugbee -- Stanley Cavell : acknowledgment, suffering, and praise : a religious continental thinker -- Bruce Wilshire : the breathtaking intimacy of the material world -- Henry James : an ethics of intimate conversation : is the unacknowledged life worth living? -- Preservative care : saving intimate voice in the humanities -- J. Glenn Gray and Hannah Arendt : squires in this vale of tears : poetry in a time of war -- Thoreau's translations : John Brown, apples, lilies.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-230) and index.
LCCN 2010275124
ISBN9781441168580 (pbk.)
ISBN1441168583 (pbk.)
ISBN9781441181664 (hbk.)
ISBN1441181660 (hbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks B85 .M66 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold