Henry David Thoreau – Grasping the Community of the World : Translated by Jean Ward
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Dis/Continuities
ISBN-10
3631640986
ISBN-13
9783631640982
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 30th, 2014
Print length
316 Pages
Weight
512 grams
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21.70 x 15.40 x 2.40 cms
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The study deals with human community and its relation with the individual. It takes recourse to the notions of friendship, moral respect and solidarity which allow for the extension of the notion of community above the limitations of the human sphere and takes up Thoreau’s work as early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships.
This study takes up Thoreaus work as an early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships between the individual and society. Thus Adornos formulation of «a melancholy of science» finds its predecessor in Thoreaus famous dictum from the early pages of Walden that we live our lives in quiet desperation. The author reads Thoreaus Journal as an attempt to refute tendencies towards the narrowing of life to being understood merely in techno-economic categories which threaten the quality of the development of both the individual and the community. Thus in literary scholarship it is essential to find strategies which will critically contribute to understanding and transforming what Auerbach called «ways of life» and what Barthes referred to as «living-together».
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