In the Shit With Thoreau: A Walden for the Anthropocene
Category: ENVIRONMENT
Reading Walden through Anthropocene eyes, insight and appreciation of nature seem to emerge from, even require, rupture and profanation.  Maybe these are unavoidable parts of an appreciative relation to the world.  Maybe the imperfect has always been our only paradise.
By Jedediah Purdy, Contributor
Professor, Duke Law School; Author, 'A Tolerable Anarchy', 2013-06-30