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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Henry David Thoreau"”.
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The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
In their travel books, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain participated in a nineteenth-century debate about American hospitality. Having inherited a Puritan perspective regarding land and respecting social cohesion, many Americans in the nineteenth century …
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Privatio Dialogus: Toward a Phenomenology of Aloneness for the Philosophy of Communication
… one, with Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Henry David Thoreau, respectively. Finally, I conclude that the experience of aloneness is fundamentally a privation of interpersonal dialogue and that the type of aloneness experienced is a result of who initiates that privation.</p>
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Saying the World Anew: A Philosophical Understanding of Communication as Testimony
… American Transcendentalism—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman—is offered. By thinking communication as testimony, as a making sense in common, the relationship between communication and a radical democracy to come is brought into relief.
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Philosophy and the professional Image of philosophy
… and the moral writings of John Dewey and Henry David Thoreau are neglected because they do not engage in the contemporary project of grounding normativity. Finally I propose that thinking of philosophy as a practice can help to recover lost historical insights at the same time that it can …
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Romantic Ideals in Contemporary Folk Music
… (1770-1850), John Keats (1795-1821), as well as Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), among others and their critics are all considered for points of comparison to the modern lyrics. The reason for this revival is considered in the conclusion chapter in terms of why …
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Economie House
… it as one of his six principles of architecture. Henry David Thoreau revisited Aristotleâ s ideas and invented a new, solitary economy. Both he and Aristotle emphasized that the purpose of economy is to meet material needs with sufficiency rather than surfeit. Economie House explores these ideas …
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The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects
… Dorothy and William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Henry David Thoreau, this dissertation frames the Romantic turn to nature not as a turn away from sociality and history but towards alternative forms of both. Intervening in a number of established strands of Romantic literary criticism and …
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Thoreau's Confucianism in The Dial, Walden, and Civil Disobedience.
… have overlooked the influence of Confucianism on Henry David Thoreau. In fact, Thoreau's long-time study of Confucius greatly enriched his thought and contributed to his spiritual and intellectual growth. Prior to Thoreau's study of Confucius, Thoreau did not publish any of his works. Early in …
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American Transcendentalism Contra Contemporary Political Philosophy: Applications of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Liberal Democratic Capitalism, Platonism, Islamism, Technology, and the "end of History"
… inspiration for Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and American Transcendentalism writ-large. Despite Carlyle being a chief source of inspiration for American Transcendentalism, his political theory did not inspire the development of a widely adopted political ideology to …
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Infectious Agents: Race and Environment in Nineteenth-Century America
… Cather, non-fiction works by Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir, as well as a scientific treatise by Ellen H. Richards to argue that nationalism inflects the American environmental imagination with a twofold desire for racial and spatial purity, an ideology that pervades not …
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The Swift Water Place: Water Quality, Fish Ecology, and Hydropower in the Merrimack River since the Time of Thoreau
… have shaped the stream for two centuries. When Henry David Thoreau and his brother John put their dory into the Merrimack in September of 1839, they were paddling into a landscape that was shifting towards water-powered industries and mill cities. The legal transformation of water and the …
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We must look a long time before we can see : the art and science of Thoreau's early works
… growing field of environmental literature than Henry David Thoreau, whose seamless synthesis of science and art illustrates his own version of sight, one that relies on two distinct ways of seeing --the embodied, or literal, and the disembodied, or philosophical. While much has been written …
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Curriculum Changes in St. Louis Public High Schools, 1870-1930: The Transformation From Female Scholar to Domesticated Citizen
… in St. Louis high schools from 1870 to 1930. As Henry David Thoreau is often quoted, one can train a scholar or a citizen, but not both. During the period of time covered by this study, St. Louis public high schools abandoned the commitment to nurturing female scholars and joined the …
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Road Narratives as Cultural Critiques: Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, and William Least Heat-Moon
… articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman morphed into a critique of the growing conformity, homogenization, and consumer culture that was equally feared by these writers. Thus a hope for the ideals inherent in America coupled with a disappointment when …
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Thorough;
Henry David Thoreau writes in the first chapter of his book, Walden, that before he could begin work on his house by the pond, he first had to borrow an axe. "Near the end of March, 1845, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and …
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Rhaptein/Aidein
… these lenses, the author considered prose from Henry David Thoreau and Maya Angelou, and the poetry of Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, and of Kooser himself. These authors all possess the ability to express themselves through the dual layers of concision and lyricism. Each is adept at looking inward …
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Race, Retreat, and Refuge: Black Voices, American Nature Writing, and Ecocritical Exile
… into its most enduring form in the works of Henry David Thoreau, literary artist turned cultural icon. This key era—during which black Americans were frequently subject to systematic deprivation of literacy, liberty, and agency—is also the period when the American nature writing genre emerged …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… as William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, and Jack London crafted historical narratives that imagined the swift annihilation of entire populations. For them, the blank slate of the American continent was simultaneously a ruined wasteland, and the mythical American Adam …
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Measuring the multiple, deep, and unfolding aspects of the wilderness experience using the experience sampling method
… were identified, inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, AIdo Leopold, Sigurd Olson, and other wilderness writers: oneness, primitiveness, humility, timelessness, solitude, and care. Five modes of experiencing the wilderness were developed based on the work of environmental …
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