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

Author/creator Mooney, Edward F., 1941-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Continuum,
Descriptionxiv, 234 p. ; 24 cm.
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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.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010275124
ISBN9781441168580 (pbk.)
ISBN9781441181664 (hbk.)

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