Henry David Thoreau’s Aesthetics : A Modern Approach to the World
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3631548745
ISBN-13
9783631548745
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 28th, 2005
Print length
199 Pages
Weight
276 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 20.90 x 1.40 cms
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The aim of the analysis is to show how Thoreau anticipated modern, 20th century notions of world and art. Following a summary of Baumgarten’s, Leibniz’, Descartes’ and Kant’s aesthetic theories five basic aesthetic questions are formulated. A close reading of Walden and the Journal answers these questions in regard to Thoreau’s artistic approach. The close reading documents his life-long struggle for an adequate perception of the phenomena that «made his world». To Thoreau even the most trivial thing expressed its divine character through its specific beauty. The last two chapters of the analysis reveal the connections that exist between Thoreau’s aesthetics of the trivial and 20th century aesthetics, between his notion of nature as expression and recent biosemiotic theory.
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