Lost intimacy in American thought
Subtitle: recovering personal philosophy from Thoreau to Cavell
By: Edward F. Mooney.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781441168580; 9781441181664
Subjects: Philosophy, American; Rationalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thoreau and others : thinking from imagination and the heart; title: A philosophy in wilderness; title: A lyric philosophy of place; title: Death and the sublime : Henry Bugbee's In demonstration of the spirit; title: Becoming what we pray : passion's gentler resolutions; title: Two testimonies in American philosophy : Stanley Cavell, Henry Bugbee; title: Stanley Cavell : acknowledgment, suffering, and praise : a religious continental thinker; title: Bruce Wilshire : the breathtaking intimacy of the material world; title: Henry James : an ethics of intimate conversation : is the unacknowledged life worth living?; title: Preservative care : saving intimate voice in the humanities; title: J. Glenn Gray and Hannah Arendt : squires in this vale of tears : poetry in a time of war; title: Thoreau's translations : John Brown, apples, lilies.