Creating Waldens
Subtitle: an East-West conversation on the American Renaissance
By: Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson, Daisaku Ikeda.
Contributors: Myerson, Joel.; Ikeda, Daisaku.
Publisher: Ikeda Center Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781887917070
Subjects: Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882; Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892; Transcendentalism (New England); Philosophy, Modern
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / by Daisaku Ikeda; title: Foreword / by Ronald A. Bosco; title: Conversation 1: Why Thoreau now?; title: Conversation 2: First encounters with Emerson and Thoreau; title: Conversation 3: Dawn of a new Renaissance; title: Conversation 4: Refusing "all the accustomed paths"; title: Conversation 5: Thoreau as social reformer; title: Conversation 6: Reading and human development; title: Conversation 7: Walden and "civil disobedience"; title: Conversation 8: Beyond the pulpit; title: Conversation 9: Emerson finds his audience; title: Conversation 10: Nature, "the American scholar" and the "divinity school address"; title: Conversation 11: Representative men; title: Conversation 12: The inner journey; title: Conversation 13: Whitman's original American genius; title: Conversation 14: The boundless potential of life; title: Conversation 15: Thoreau's "highest of the arts"; title: Conversation 16: Bonds with nature; title: Conversation 17: Nature, healing, and health; title: Conversation 18: "Our prospects brighten".